Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 14:19:56 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: nospam@mgedv.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wanted: hp-ux glance pendant Message-ID: <20060503141956.ce1b5607.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <000901c66ed4$4cf6c280$dededede@avalon.lan> References: <20060503084313.cfa8d990.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <000901c66ed4$4cf6c280$dededede@avalon.lan>
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On Wed, 3 May 2006 19:09:12 +0200 "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" <nospam@mgedv.net> wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with glance, but have a look at systat, specifically, > > the vmstat screen. > > well, thx for the hint. the tool indeed looks nice, and curious as i am, > i monitored some action with it. i started it with > "systat -vmstat 1 >/dev/ttyv9 &" > to get the output to a non-shelled terminal and watch the stats on another > screen. right now, the only process currently still working on the system > is the monitor tool itself: > > top output: > last pid: 51158; load averages: 1.12, 1.03, 1.01 > up 0+09:40:19 19:00:57 > 21 processes: 2 running, 19 sleeping > CPU states: 69.9% user, 0.0% nice, 30.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% > idle > Mem: 297M Active, 1393M Inact, 137M Wired, 92M Cache, 104M Buf, 83M Free > Swap: 4096M Total, 500M Used, 3596M Free, 12% Inuse > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND > 60297 root 1 126 0 1816K 1256K RUN 221:45 99.02% systat [snip] > is this normal? it will at least render the figures inaccurate, not? I wouldn't call that normal. Running systat doesn't cause anything like that kind of load on my system. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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