Web Server monitoring

[danIT]

I've got a basic webserver setup, running a moodle install.

 

Im using 'top' on the linux box to show me how much CPU (%) is being used, it seems to be getting hammered at the moment.

 

How can I tie the process to a request, how can i work out who or what is causing the massive spike?

[plexer]

top gives a list of the processes with the user and how much cpu is being used?

 

It does here anyway.

 

Ben

[danIT]

yes but the user is Apache in this case.

[webman]

You can do top -u www-data or whatever the Apache user is; or get Apachetop which might help narrow things down a bit.

[Geoff]

Also consider using htop. It's prettier.

[danIT]

Oooh Prety colours!