From: Chamith Kumarage <gnu.chami@gmx.net>
To: Ron Herbert <1.fridy@gmail.com>
Cc: linux_milano@yahoo.it, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: monitoring swap i/o
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:41:14 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1232010674.1898.3.camel@CHAMITH> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <495aea260901130105r7fc59b1dv53ee58276dd0c432@mail.gmail.com>
+1 for "sar"...another option would be to use "iostat"..
Running "iostat" with a "tail -f" might be what you are looking for..
~Chamith
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:05 +0100, Ron Herbert wrote:
> looks on "sar" you can report statistics for a given process (or from
> the system)
>
> Firefox: i think firefox is a monolith a tab isn't a childprozess (may
> be you find a addone, that say you more about firefox)
>
>
> fridy
>
> 2009/1/11, Pol <linux_milano@yahoo.it>:
> >
> > I would like to be able to exactly monitor programs i/o in the swap
> > area; 'top' does not seem to be the right tool as processes are sorted
> > according to the total amount of swap space used, while i would like
> > processes with high i/o activity (albeit in small amounts) to be
> > highlighted.
> >
> > My case is with firefox and konqueror. They stay silently for hours, then
> > i/o starts, as one can hear that typical noise from the disk and as it can
> > be checked with 'vmstat'.
> > Also i would like to locate programs more precisely, to tell which browser
> > tab, which plugin has triggered that swapping.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
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> > Pol
> >
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 19:29 monitoring swap i/o Pol
2009-01-13 9:05 ` Ron Herbert
2009-01-13 10:00 ` Adrian Calinescu
2009-01-15 9:11 ` Chamith Kumarage [this message]
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