information on how to analyze output from top or glance

[Pando]

Dear Gurus,

I would like to ask information on how to analyse output from 'top' or glance.
Thanks!

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

hi,

check out these links..

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/top.1.html
http://h20229.www2.hp.com/products/gplus/index.html

the first 4 to 5 lines of the glance output gives you the system status. average usage of the system resources.
top lists the processes using the the CPU most. the output is self explaning. just note down the PID of the process and do
ps -ef | grep PID

sunny

[Jason Ray]

Another utility that you may want to consider is 'sar'. The man page for that will show you all of the options. But its nice to use for writing scripts to get snapshots of performance each day at certain times. Or for running quick commands to get system utilization.