[Techtalk] Performance monitoring

[Mary]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005, jennyw wrote:
> I was wondering if people had suggestions for performance monitoring tools. In 
> particular, I'm looking for something like top but which includes history, and also 
> information on all the running processes (or at least the number of running 
> processes).

Have a look at the output of vmstat for starters, although it will only
update once a second (run "vmstat 1" to see it).

-Mary