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Date:      Sun, 05 Nov 2000 17:32:16 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: user-space resource information...
Message-ID:  <3A051B10.3E43D0C9@newsguy.com>
References:  <3248.973365649@critter> <200011041952.eA4JqZF11774@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20001104221812.A14843@panzer.kdm.org>

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"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
> 
> I think vmstat(8) might be a better fit than iostat.  vmstat already
> displays kernel memory usage (-m), interrupt usage (-i), paging stats (-s),
> and zone allocator stats (-z).

That's vmstat's problem, not a feature. :-)

That kind of thinking is what led to Linux /proc.

> Since vmstat already has "kitchen sink" type functionality (i.e. a wide
> variety of uses), I think it would probably work better to put this new
> functionality there.

If it's not vm-related, it shouldn't be listed by vmstat.

> iostat is also designed primarily for continuous output use -- displaying a
> line of stats every N seconds.  vmstat is also designed for that in its

That's the objection I raised to Mike. :-) I suggested systat, though
that has it's problems too.

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