Greetings, All. Is it possible to have top(1) or systat(1) constantly running on a spare virtual console, like ttyv8? In the best case they will also accept keyboard input when virtual console is active, so
Here is my case. A testing server misbehaved half an hour ago, stopped doing whatever it is usually doing (there is a queue of tasks that left waiting), virtual console login stopped working -- one can press Enter on
Can you suggest any other tool that might come in handy, or another way to approach such a problem? Thank you!
top
/ systat
toggles could be changed.Here is my case. A testing server misbehaved half an hour ago, stopped doing whatever it is usually doing (there is a queue of tasks that left waiting), virtual console login stopped working -- one can press Enter on
login:
prompt and console will print prompt again, but entering root
will make console hang. sshd(8) stopped accepting remote connections. Since machine is forwarding log events to a remote server I can see it generates couple of kernel: pid XXX (getty), uid 0: exited on signal 11
messages every 10 seconds; basically an hour ago processes started persistently dumping core (including cron), but nothing else interesting in syslog. I would like to have a diag tool left running, so I'll be able to analyse it if it happens again.Can you suggest any other tool that might come in handy, or another way to approach such a problem? Thank you!