According to John Carter: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hmm,
>
> It occurs to me that some people may not be aware of the various tools
> available to watch and learn about what is happening to your system.
>
> I heartily recommend running some of the following tools all the
> time. They teach you a lot about your system and can be very useful in
> understanding the bottlenecks.
>
> Even if you haven't the foggiest what the various stats mean. Leave
> the things running and watch how they react when you do various
> things. Cosmically speaking it will eventually percolate into your
> brain what the man pages are talking about.
>
> top
> See which prog is hogging what and in what state.
>
> vmstat 5
> Prints a single line summary of what is going on in the VM every 5 seconds.
>
> procmeter
>
> Start this one with cpu,load,swap,disk,fpkt-rx,fpkt-tx,fpkt-coll if
> you on ethernet or just cpu,load,swap,disk,lpkt if on a modem. Make
> it sticky if your window manager allows.
This must be a program which is not included in a standard install, at
least not in redhat 4.2 / 5.0, slackware 3.4 debian 1.3.1 and suse 5.1.
procinfo is possably its counterpart.
Another good way of learning is 'info' "GNU's hypertext system" which
will also show any manpage for a command + on many occasions much more
information as well concerning the command issued.
'info make' for example is much more informative about the "make" command
than the manual page for make.
Of course some might not have even installed this very handy tool, altho'
its normaly installed by default.
If i may add the the good pointers shown by John, if folks have time, cd to
the bin directory, do a 'ls -al' i am sure there are many command there that
one will never have seen and make one think, hey whats that for, now take a
look at the manual page for that command, i can assure you it improve your
"system knowlage" at an amasing speed.
If you have time on your hands and money in your pocket for the phone bill
try;
http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show/help.beginners
Its a very informative URL.
>
> Poke about the /proc file system. "less" everything in sight.
>
>
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>
> In a cluster of galaxies, one of many such clusters, there is a
> galaxy. On the edge of this galaxy, is a star, one of millions of such
> stars. Orbiting this star, is tiny ball of iron. On this tiny ball is
> a very thin scum of lighter elements.
>
> Some of which have delusions of grandeur.
>
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Regards Richard.
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