wanted: hp-ux glance pendant

[Bill Moran]

On Wed, 3 May 2006 19:09:12 +0200
"No at SPAM@mgEDV.net" <nospam at mgedv.net> wrote:

> 
> > I'm not familiar with glance, but have a look at systat, specifically,
> > the vmstat screen.
> 
> well, thx for the hint. the tool indeed looks nice, and curious as i am,
> i monitored some action with it. i started it with
> "systat -vmstat 1 >/dev/ttyv9 &"
> to get the output to a non-shelled terminal and watch the stats on another
> screen. right now, the only process currently still working on the system
> is the monitor tool itself:
> 
> top output:
> last pid: 51158;  load averages:  1.12,  1.03,  1.01
> up 0+09:40:19  19:00:57
> 21 processes:  2 running, 19 sleeping
> CPU states: 69.9% user,  0.0% nice, 30.1% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0%
> idle
> Mem: 297M Active, 1393M Inact, 137M Wired, 92M Cache, 104M Buf, 83M Free
> Swap: 4096M Total, 500M Used, 3596M Free, 12% Inuse
> 
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 60297 root        1 126    0  1816K  1256K RUN    221:45 99.02% systat

[snip]

> is this normal? it will at least render the figures inaccurate, not?

I wouldn't call that normal.  Running systat doesn't cause anything like
that kind of load on my system.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.