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In article <MPG.e53b8d2256cc2ed989686@192.168.200.2>, real@name.here.com (Real Name) writes:
> Running Solaris 2.4, I keep an eye on perfmeter. Sometimes, the CPU 
> utilization tops out and the system bogs down. How can I determine what 
> is causing this? How can I see what users or processes are hitting the 
> CPU so hard? I've tried every variant of ps I could see in the man pages, 
> but not what I'm needing. I very new at this, that may be obvious, but 
> any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
> 
> Scott
> 

Have you tried top? qps?
Top is available just about every major free software archive that
supplies unix tools. I wrote qps to give me the things that I wanted
out of ps. It uses /proc to get the information. It gives user, pid,
tty, %cpu, %mem, and process name. Optionally, it will supply 
pages and bytes of RSS and SIZE, or environment variables, or command
arguments. It can sort pid, username, %cpuusage and %memory in forward
or reverse order. Best of all, it's very very fast.

Works on 2.4 and above.
(2.6 redoes /proc, so it probably won't work there - until I get the release
version of 2.6 installed here and do the porting)

available: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/doug/second.html
or
ftp://ftp.eng.auburn.edu/users/doug/qps (or qps.c for small source file)

Top, of course, is much more portable, and has more bells and whistles,
but qps gets the job done, and is useful for getting a process listing
when ps won't (e.g. when there is a process that is hung on some kind of
device I/O operation and hangs ps)

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