[CentOS] Resource utilisation of processes on linux server.

[J Martin Rushton]

On 14/04/2019 16:51, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 
>>
>> Thanks for the email. I will be interested in command line interface
>> tool/utility. Is there a way to find out the previous occurrence of
>> resource utilization? For example, there was a high load on the Linux
>> server which occurred three days back during the time of 3:00 AM to 4:00 AM
>> meaning historical data.
>>
> 
> You need to look at system accounting. The command 'sa' reports on
> accounting information and the command 'accton' turns on per process
> accounting.  It's not usually turned on by default (on busy systems the
> accounting files can get large) and it's not retrospective. (So if it's
> not turned on, any per-process logs are lost once the process
> terminates.)
> 
> P.
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sa logs aren't usually too big, but the process logs can get pretty
large.  sa logs are usually processed overnight to sar reports which are
a good starting point (see /var/log/sa).  If you are running an audit
trail that may give you additional information, as would monitoring
tools such as Ganglia.

-- 
J Martin Rushton MBCS

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