Re: vmstat layout

2008-02-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
Julian Elischer wrote: not if you use awk to parse the output to cherrypick out the numbers you are intersted in... Right. It would be for humans though, not for machines :). Ed's suggestion sort of makes more sense though... -Garrett ___ freebsd

Re: vmstat layout

2008-02-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What about multiline entries with indentation to group fields for > > "human readable output"? > not if you use awk to parse the output to cherrypick out the numbers > you are intersted in... vmstat alread

Re: vmstat layout

2008-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Garrett Cooper wrote: On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: vmstat(1) tries very hard to fit everything in 80 columns. Unfortunately, it's been years since anyone had a machine where none of the columns overflowed. [...] Removing columns is not an acceptable solution (it

Re: vmstat layout

2008-02-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: vmstat(1) tries very hard to fit everything in 80 columns. Unfortunately, it's been years since anyone had a machine where none of the columns overflowed. [...] Removing columns is not an acceptable solution (it would break too man

Re: vmstat layout

2008-02-01 Thread Ed Schouten
* Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > vmstat(1) tries very hard to fit everything in 80 columns. > > Unfortunately, it's been years since anyone had a machine where none of > the columns overflowed. > > The recent addition of -h helps with the avm and fre columns, but on a > busy sys

vmstat layout

2008-02-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
vmstat(1) tries very hard to fit everything in 80 columns. Unfortunately, it's been years since anyone had a machine where none of the columns overflowed. The recent addition of -h helps with the avm and fre columns, but on a busy system (e.g. a Varnish server on a busy web site), pretty much eve