To monitor the current system load interactively with an interval
of 5 seconds:
pcp atop 5
To monitor the system load and write it to a file (in plain
ASCII) with an interval of one minute during half an hour with
active processes sorted on memory consumption:
pcp atop -M 60 30 > /log/pcp-atop.mem
Store information about the system and process activity in a PCP
archive folio with an interval of ten minutes during an hour:
pcp atop -w /tmp/pcp-atop 600 6
View the contents of this file interactively:
pcp atop -r /tmp/pcp-atop
View the processor and disk utilization of this file in parseable
format:
pcp atop -PCPU,DSK -r /tmp/pcp-atop.folio
View the contents of today's standard logfile interactively:
pcp atop -r
View the contents of the standard logfile of the day before
yesterday interactively:
pcp atop -r yy
View the contents of the standard logfile of 2014, June 7 from
02:00 PM onwards interactively:
pcp atop -r 20140607 -b 14:00
