In the last episode (May 03), [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net said: > > 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: > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND > 60297 root 1 126 0 1816K 1256K RUN 221:45 99.02% systat > > is this normal? it will at least render the figures inaccurate, not?
Systat doesn't like it if it has no stdin; adding a " </dev/ttyv9 " to your commandline should make it behave. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"