I would say that it sure makes performance tuning a lot easier if you know exactly what needs tuning!
(responding from debian-user) On 25-Oct-97 Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I was recently installing linux on a poor 386sx, with 4M of memory. > > I noticed that during a compile of a kernel, 2.0.30, which took 35 hours > to complete, vmstat showed a large idle time. I was swapping like mad, and > came to the conclusion that time spent in swap is accounted for in the > idle time? > > AIX 3.2.5 has an additional field for the cpu percentages, called wait(ing > for io) > > Is there any need to know this bit of info? > > -- > Walter L. Preuninger II waldo @ > irc.wasteland.org:#unix > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rapidramp.com/~walterp > > L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
