You also need to append & to the command. (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > On Aug 7, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Virilha <centos at cheiraminhavirilha.com> wrote: > > You can use top in batch mode, -a sorts by memory, -d 20 updates every > 20 seconds. adjust to your needs. > > top -b -a -d 20 >> top.txt > > If you are going to disconnect from the terminal, use nohup before top: > > nohup top -b -a -d 20 >> top.txt > > ----- Message from przemolicc at poczta.fm --------- > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:14:12 +0200 > From: przemolicc at poczta.fm > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Subject: [CentOS] Per process memory monitoring tool > To: centos at centos.org > > >> Hi all, >> >> I am looking for a tool which let me monitor memory consumption per >> process on CentOS 5/6. >> The tool should be able to save its history so I could see what >> amount of memory was consumed yesterday/week ago/etc >> by each process. >> Can you recommend anything like that ? >> >> Best regards >> P. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > ----- End message from przemolicc at poczta.fm ----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos