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From: Vlad GALU <vladgalu@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:23:46 -0600, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Dec 14), Vlad GALU said:
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:55:21 +0000, Chris Elsworth <chris@shagged.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:33:45PM +0300, scream wrote:
> > > >   I`m trying to solve this puzzle >"how to get statistics about
> > > >   total count of fork`ed\exec`ed processes since the server been
> > > >   rebooted and even make some RRD-like graphs".I need it to make
> > > >   some graphs about server perfomance and stability.Could anyone
> > > >   point me to any usefull docs.
> > >
> > > OTTOMH without consulting any docs, are these any use:
> > >
> > > # sysctl -a | grep fork
> > > vm.stats.vm.v_forks: 4795379
> > > vm.stats.vm.v_vforks: 1017309
> > > vm.stats.vm.v_rforks: 0
> >
> > Hehe, I never noticed those.
> 
> Most Unixes provide these stats under the "vmstat -s" command also.
>
   
   It'd be nice if Linux had something like that. However, I've been
able to reproduce the desired effect by issuing "cat /proc/stat | grep
processes".
 
> --
>         Dan Nelson
>         dnelson@allantgroup.com
> 


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