What's so heavy? Pegging CPU or memory

[Joep L. Blom]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> How can I log things that peg the CPU or memory? Often I get
> several-second lockups (nothing works but the mouse pointer moves) and
> I'd like to know the state of the machine at that instant. I could
> direct top's output to a file, nice it, and then parse that manually,
> but if there is a better way then I'd love to know. Thanks.
> 
Dotan,
Install the plugin gkrelltop. This gives you constantly the 2 most 
active processes in the gkrellm display.
Joep