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Hi there,

I´m trying to get the information of vmstat & top in two different logfiles.
That not that difficult.

vmstat 30 >> myfile.log
top >> myfile2.log

But I also like to include a timestamp every 30 sec to be sure from what date the logs are.

For the Top command I were able to create a script that works.

But for the vmstat that don´t work, cause the command never comes back. I helped starting the command direktly from the shell like this:
and then add hte timestamp like the same
Any better ideas?

TIA

frank

Try something like:
vmstat 1 4
which means give me 4 output lines 1 second apart.

That´s just the hint I needed.

Thanks perderabo