On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:52:35 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > I'm wondering if this should have its own program, rather than squat
> > in on iostat ?
>
> Adding yet another program for such a trivial fragment of code seems
> kinda silly. If/when someone uses the other interfaces as well to get
> the full device tree extracted, that probably belongs elsewhere, but
> right now iostat is as good a place as any for this I think.
I think vmstat(8) might be a better fit than iostat. vmstat already
displays kernel memory usage (-m), interrupt usage (-i), paging stats (-s),
and zone allocator stats (-z).
iostat only displays cpu, tty and disk I/O.
Since vmstat already has "kitchen sink" type functionality (i.e. a wide
variety of uses), I think it would probably work better to put this new
functionality there.
iostat is also designed primarily for continuous output use -- displaying a
line of stats every N seconds. vmstat is also designed for that in its
default output mode, but most of the other displays I mentioned above are
one-shot displays, like the rman code. So one more wouldn't hurt.
The only thing that would recommend iostat for the rman code is the name,
I think. (I/O ports, iostat, etc.)
So, I'd like to request that you use vmstat instead of iostat.
Ken
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