aixdude@yahoo.com wrote:
> AlexW wrote:
>
>>I would like to take the top 10 processes by % CPU usage over contiguous
>>60 second intervals of and record it to a file in a format that is
>>amenable to post processing.
>>
>>The command "topas -Pi 60" has the information I want but its formatted
>>with terminal escape sequences which make it difficult to process later.
>>
>>Taking periodic samples with "ps aux" and sorting on %CPU is almost
>>there, but its on a sample basis which is not over the whole 60 second
>>period.
>>
>>Does anyone have any solutions or better ideas?
>>
>>TIA & Regards,
>>
>>Alex.
>
>
> NMON and NMON Analyzer
> Free tool from IBM (and a good one IMHO)
>
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...s/analyze_aix/
>

Thanks...

Had seen NMON, but looks like another curses type terminal based output
.... does it provide file based output as well?

Regards,

Alex