joost witteveen wrote:
>
> Being a Linux enthousiast, I also like to think that AIX has that
> additional field, because AIX actually does "wait for IO", i.e., while
> waiting for IO it doesn't do run any other jobs in the background.
It's the exact opposite: when a process is "waiting for IO" (f
> 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
>
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,
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