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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Unless you have process accounting and
logging running on that system, you can’t.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You could always run a check through
Nagios to gather the most resource intensive processes in the output of your
check load, I don’t know whether anyone has implemented it, but you can
always search on Nagios Exchange, or try google.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jake Solid<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 20 July 2007 16:25<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Nagios-users] Nagios
reporting Load Usage</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nagios did a good job
reporting a high level of load on one of my servers during the morning<br>
<br>
CRITICAL - load average: 59.62, 31.70, 13.53<br>
<br>
Then it sent a recovery alert showing the load as:<br>
<br>
OK - load average: 1.72, 1.72, 4.56<br>
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How can I find out what exactly put the load a that high level?<br>
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Regards,</span></font></p>
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