Darren Tucker wrote: > If you have a logged-in shell you can do "exec ps -auwx" which won't
require a new process table slot. It replaces the shell so you'll be effectively logged out after the ps completes, but hopefully with better information :-)
"exec ps -auwx" doesn't helps here because the box is locked by the time I get the error.
Alternatively you could put the ps into a cron job and log to a file every minute or so and do post-mortem analysis.
yes, it was one of my first ideas but I would like retrieve all the infomation related to the system status and I wonder if top is the proper tool for this purpose? By now I have vmstat and iostat logging to a file.