tracking down excessive system cpu utilization

[Romeo Theriault]

The "top" command will show you what process are using the most cpu  
and memory amongst other things but what have you tried so far?

Romeo

On May 8, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Blackburn, Marvin wrote:

> I have a single cpu, rhel es 3.0 u 5 system that shows excessive  
> 'system
> cpu" utilization.
> I think, but, am not sure that the httpd process is causing this.  Can
> anyone suggest a method to find out:
> 1) what process is causing the system utilization to go up
> 2) what system calls are being made overall and how many of each?
>
> Any help or suggestions on this would be appreciated.  This is a
> production system, so rebooting or shutting down processes is not
> desirable.
>
> ------------------
> Marvin Blackburn
> Systems Administrator
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