On a few occasions we have experienced an huge and brief increase in load on our server (example follows). We'd like to find out what is causing this. If something would just run top and record the results when the load went above a certain level that might be a start. Anybody know how we might do that.
10:00:01 PM runq-sz plist-sz ldavg-1 ldavg-5 ldavg-15
...
11:30:01 PM 10 458 0.53 0.65 0.69
11:40:01 PM 10 458 0.48 0.60 0.63
11:50:40 PM 0 779 172.29 98.67 41.33
10:00:01 PM runq-sz plist-sz ldavg-1 ldavg-5 ldavg-15
...
11:30:01 PM 10 458 0.53 0.65 0.69
11:40:01 PM 10 458 0.48 0.60 0.63
11:50:40 PM 0 779 172.29 98.67 41.33