From: José M. Fandiño (openbsdfadesa.es)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 10:04:23 CST

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Darren Tucker wrote:
> If you have a logged-in shell you can do "exec ps -auwx" which won't
> require a new process table slot. It replaces the shell so you'll be
> effectively logged out after the ps completes, but hopefully with better
> information :-)

"exec ps -auwx" doesn't helps here because the box is locked by the time
I get the error.

        
> Alternatively you could put the ps into a cron job and log to a file
> every minute or so and do post-mortem analysis.

yes, it was one of my first ideas but I would like retrieve all the infomation
related to the system status and I wonder if top is the proper tool for this
purpose?

By now I have vmstat and iostat logging to a file.

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