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Any recommendations for low-impact tools I can use to better understand the activity of expired processes?

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, so this is the best one I've seen so far.

I've just installed it, but I'm stumped on the documentation on how to find the name of a high-load process from 10 mins ago.

Install and start the monitoring

sudo pacman -S sysstat
sudo systemctl {enable,start} sysstat

Find what processes were running 10 minutes ago

(first wait 10 minutes)

sar -P ALL -f /var/log/sa/sa$(date +%d -d '10 minutes ago')

nothing happens.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

fyi, systemctl disable/enable has a --now flag

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sudo cpupower -c all frequency-set --max 0.8GHz No more spikes 😎👍👌

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

That'd just prolong a mild spike instead

[–] hades@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Sounds like atop is exactly what you need.