quick-n-easy process timer

[Kevin]

Check out `man time`.  Might be what you are looking for.  I often use it
out of curiosity when compiling code.  I always like to come back later and
see how long it took to compile.  ;-)

...Kevin


On 12/5/05 2:31 PM, "Sean Dudley" <sean.dudley at asu.edu> wrote:

> What I was looking for is a way to know when the episodes are occuring
> so I can have a look.  You're right though, load average is >1 during
> those times.  Which is odd since the system is idle.
> 
> FoulDragon at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> I'd bet that during those "episodes" the load average spikes; you
>> could just do a looped "uptime" and watch the figures on a console.
>> 
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