From: Adrian Calinescu <office@snobu.org>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: monitoring swap i/o
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:00:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <832D2B24B1024240B792228AFB86C142@ccrash3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 495aea260901130105r7fc59b1dv53ee58276dd0c432@mail.gmail.com
Hello,
> 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)
You are right, the only browser I know of that runs every tab as a separate
process is Chrome.
--Adrian.
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From: "Ron Herbert" <1.fridy@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:05 AM
To: <linux_milano@yahoo.it>
Cc: <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: monitoring swap i/o
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-13 10:00 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 [this message]
2009-01-15 9:11 ` Chamith Kumarage
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