[BlueOnyx:26037] Re: Serverload message and info about processes

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Dirk,

> System monitoring has recently detected changes in the status of your 
> server.
> 
> For more details, see the System Monitoring section of the 
> administration interface.
> 
> The following changes have been registered:
> 
> * The CPU is currently very heavily used.[…]
> 
> ---
> 
> And then there is a "top" attached to it.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is sorted by PID and not by "%CPU".
> 
> Would it also be possible to sort the "top" according to "%CPU"? This 
> would help to find out where the load could come from in this moment 
> /snapshot.


We use this command to generate the report:

top -b -n 1

One can specifically tell it to sort by CPU this way:

top -b -n 1 -o %CPU

But that's already the default anyway.

However: Our swatch has also a sort routine that then sorts it by PID, 
which is kinda stupid. I'll publish a fixed "swatch" later today that 
then presents the output sorted by CPU.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber