On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 18:38, Kwan Lowe wrote: ... > List swap usage, statistics, etc.. > vmstat ...
Another nifty trick with vmstat is vmstat [interval] [number of loops]. It outputs a nicely formatted table of memory, cpu, and disk subsystem activity. Very good for isolating performance problems, you can run one command and say "ah hah, your problem is that the disks are running like gerbils on crack and the system is spending all its time blocked and waiting for disks. Buy more and faster drives." -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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