From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Calinescu Subject: Re: monitoring swap i/o Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:00:08 +0200 Message-ID: <832D2B24B1024240B792228AFB86C142@ccrash3> References: <495aea260901130105r7fc59b1dv53ee58276dd0c432@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="original" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Herbert" <1.fridy@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:05 AM To: Cc: 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 : >> >> 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 >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html