Re: xmm2 - monitor Linux MM active/inactive lists graphically

[Simon Kirby]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:25:45AM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> Sure. Output of 'vmstat 1' follows:
>...
>  0  2  0      0  43148   5328 389516   0   0     0  9548  174    97 0   4  95
>  0  2  0      0  35144   5336 397316   0   0     0  7820  176    73 0   3  97
>  0  2  0      0  25172   5344 407036   0   0     0  9724  188   183 0   4  96
>  0  2  1      0  17300   5352 414708   0   0     0  7744  174    78 0   4  96
>...
> Notice how there's planty of RAM. I'm writing sequentially to a file
> on the ext2 filesystem. The disk I'm writing on is a 7200rpm IDE,
> capable of ~ 22 MB/s and I'm still getting only ~ 9 MB/s. Weird!

Same here.  But hey, at least it doesn't swap now! :)

Also, dd if=/dev/zero of=blah bs=1024k seems to totally kill everything
else on my box until I ^C it.

Simon-

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