Hi,

ext Marius Gedminas wrote:
We are currently thinking what kind of tools and utilities would be
the most useful for ARM based Maemo developers. Idea is that we would
host some basic tools and utilities from common repository and
hopefully when new platform version comes these tools work ASAP and
fun can start immediately. So please tell what kind of tools you are
using or wishing and why ?
strace
ltrace
gdb
strings
vmstat
IMHO "top" and /proc/vmstat file are bearable replacements for vmstat
utility.

I actually have a working vmstat on my 770.  No deb, though -- the build
process broke down somewhere in the middle, when I tried to port the
Debian procps package.

Vmstat is useful to see why the tablet is sometimes not responsive
(e.g. while installing a package), when the CPU applet shows 0% usage.

But the device becomes responsive again once the package installation
from the MMC completes, right?

(If not, what's the MMC/SD card model and manufacturer?)


(The answer is a storm of interrupts, dealing with flash memory.)

Hm.  I guess one could monitor these from /proc/interrupts or
/proc/stat, but vmstat is indeed easier... :-)


        - Eero
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