>Thanks to both Neil andPaul for the systat & top suggestions - i 
>didnt know either existed :o/
>
>Bascially i was asking because of checking whether RiscBSD as a news 
>server could handle more than news.* and comp.* hierarchies.  Systat 
>and top are good for snapshots but dont seem to record how things 
>progress over time.  Or maybe i havn't looked at them closely enough 
>yet (man pages here i come ;o)

has looking at vmstat been suggested yet?