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i have an HPUX box in the office, as my daily routine i always check the load on my servers. i use the "top" command to see that. i would like to create a log file out of it so i can make it run once a day and check the logs. the problem is that the "top" command is like the "tail -f" command where it constantly updates. how can i make this work? i looked at the threads for "terminating tail" but the replies seems not applicable.

thanks

Check the man page for top - on most systems I've seen, there is an option for when it's supposed to go out to file...

it seems that some questions requires simple answers. if you have a question it would be best if we consult the man pages first before posting. how silly of me... thanks livinfree for reminding me

the "top" command with the option "d" should do the trick, and direct it to a filename.

thanks,

I have tried that with the standard HP-UX version of top and I just get a mess in the output file. Is this working for you? What version of top and HP-UX are you using? And what is your TERM variable set to?

Perderabo,

I am running 11.0 with term of vt320. I think top is the standard version for my host.
HP-UX myhost B.11.00 A 9000/800 624339393 two-user license

I used this command.

top -h -d 1 -f file.top

My output was this.

# cat file.top
Load averages: 0.21, 0.22, 0.24
657 processes: 638 sleeping, 18 running, 1 zombie
Cpu states: (avg)
LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0.21 14.2% 0.0% 0.8% 85.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Memory: 2327724K (972304K) real, 2098712K (937484K) virtual, 24059800K free Pa2

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
4 ? 22458 oracle 231 20 1511M 197M run 55:13 100.15 99.98 oracletcoe
1 ? 27456 oracle 152 20 203M 162M run 228:56 2.97 2.97 native_th
7 ? 782 root 154 20 1544K 128K sleep 546:04 1.49 1.49 syncer
6 ? 39 root 152 20 1856K 0K run 74:17 1.27 1.27 vxfsd
7 ? 22736 oracle 154 20 1316M 2864K sleep 0:39 0.91 0.91 oracletcone
3 ? 399 applmgr 154 20 401M 5328K sleep 2:10 0.73 0.73 oraclecfas1
0 ? 1805 applmgr 156 20 428M 3736K sleep 1:12 0.58 0.57 ora_snp0_C1
7 ? 3 root 128 20 32K 0K sleep 130:05 0.43 0.43 statdaemon
0 ? 1327 oracle 156 20 1331M 13104K sleep 2:18 0.42 0.42 oracletcone
3 ? 11620 applmgr 154 20 397M 2096K sleep 15:28 0.34 0.34 oraclecfas1
3 ? 6607 patrol 154 30 25836K 21828K sleep 869:15 0.34 0.34 PatrolAgent
3 ? 14314 applmgr 156 20 423M 27788K sleep 44:15 0.30 0.30 ora_qmn0_c1
1 ? 11810 applmgr 154 20 397M 1984K sleep 47:54 0.26 0.26 oraclecfas1
0 ? 27120 applmgr 154 20 399M 3248K sleep 0:01 0.24 0.24 oracleCFAS1
1 ? 22706 applmgr 154 20 398M 2144K sleep 2:37 0.23 0.23 oracleCFAS1
5 ? 6889 root 152 20 35912K 13016K run 15:12 0.22 0.22 mxagent

Kelam_Magus, yes that works for me too! But how did you know about the -f option? It's not on my man page! Anyway that -f option seems to be the key.

I don't know.

I see it in my man page on both 11.0 and 11i and on the command line with a bogus option to get the usage error which shows all the options.

For 11.i, these are the options for top.

# top -xxx
top: illegal option -- x
Usage: top [-u] [-q] [-P] [-dx] [-sx] [-p pset_id] [-n number] [-f filename]

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Here are my 11.0 options for top.

# top -xxx
top: illegal option -- x
Usage: top [-u] [-q] [-dx] [-sx] [-n number] [-f filename]

Maybe it is a patch thing???