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I don't have any access to /proc [...] 'man ps' mentions needing procfs mounted [...] I think just adding "ps" output to the existing "top" output would be one of the next steps.

If top took 5.5 minutes in showing output between two given snapshots above, I think adding ps won't improve the situation because ps data won't be correlated at all with top's. My bet would be to play with ps o argument, which allow you to get the information of top and more. Setting PERSONALITY to "bsd" on this Linux machine allows me to run ps as I were on a FreeBSD. I hope...

$ PERSONALITY=bsd ps faxo pid,euid,egid,ni:2,vsz:6,rss:6,pcpu,pmem,sta
+t:3=ST,tname:6,stime,bsdtime,args
  PID  EUID  EGID NI    VSZ    RSS %CPU %MEM ST  TTY    STIME   TIME C
+OMMAND
    1     0     0  0   1924    652  0.0  0.0 S   ?      19:24   0:00 i
+nit [2]  
    2     0     0 19      0      0  0.0  0.0 SN  ?      19:24   0:00 [
+ksoftirqd/0]
    3     0     0 -5      0      0  0.0  0.0 S<  ?      19:24   0:00 [
+events/0]
[...]
 1368   111   111  0  26580    912  0.0  0.0 Ssl ?      19:26   0:00 /
+usr/sbin/ippl -c /var/run/ippl/ippl.conf
 1423     0     0  0   4800   1608  0.0  0.1 Ss  ?      19:26   0:00 /
+usr/lib/postfix/master
 1428   101   104  0   4812   1604  0.0  0.1 S   ?      19:26   0:00  
+\_ pickup -l -t fifo -u -c
[download]

You can s/args$/comm/ in order not to show parameters of commands:

 1368   111   111  0  26580    912  0.0  0.0 Ssl ?      19:26   0:00 i
+ppl
 1423     0     0  0   4800   1608  0.0  0.1 Ss  ?      19:26   0:00 m
+aster
 1428   101   104  0   4812   1604  0.0  0.1 S   ?      19:26   0:00  
+\_ pickup
[download]

HTH.

--
David Serrano

In reply to Re^3: 'A' web server takes another "time out" (root) by Hue-Bond
in thread 'A' web server takes another "time out" by tye

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