How to track the source of brief spike in number of processes?
Issue
- Every Saturday at 7 PM we are getting around 100 times more processes spike.
- Readings for proc/s in sar report suddenly increase around 7 PM. How to find out what is causing this spike in number of processes?
00:00:01 proc/s
19:00:01 3.08
19:02:23 308.69
19:02:53 7.59
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
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