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From: "Ron Herbert" <1.fridy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: monitoring swap i/o
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:05:19 +0100
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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
>
> --
> Pol
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