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What's the best way to monitor and log which processes are responsible for high system load throughout the day? Tools like top and htop only provide immediate values, but I'm looking for a solution (social.harpia.red)
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What's the best way to monitor and log which processes are responsible for high system load throughout the day? Tools like top and htop only provide immediate values, but I'm looking for a solution that offers historical data to identify the main culprits over time.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

atop should be available in your package manager and run as a daemon. It stores the history in /var/