[plug] Tracking system problems...

[Bret Busby]

Christian wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know of some good Linux tools for tracking down system problems, such
> > as runaway programs? eg; monitoring of resource usage, and logging of any
> > abnormal or prolonged resource hogging...
> 
> I would have thought ps(1) would provide all the info you would need -
> although top(1) may be useful, as David suggested, for immediate feedback,
> particularly of CPU utilisation.  vmstat(8), free(1) and procinfo(8) (part
> of the sysutils package in Debian) may also help with memory issues.
> 
> There are of course plenty of other more sophisticated utils out there
> (including the GNU accoutning stuff) depending on exactly what you want to
> do.
> 

What is the significance of the numbers in the brackets?

Bret Busby
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