>> This was the fourth reply with the output of 'vm_stat', > > (Were any of those replies on-list?)
No, only yours came via the list. >> P.S.: Why do we use 'awk' within 'perl'? > > Because it runs on the remote machine, and `awk` has less > overhead than `perl`. (Though since it's waiting for at > least 1 second to gather stats, it may not be a > significant overhead.) Perl is not my prefered language so I might be wrong with the following, but I thought that sub "swap_activity" used 'qx' to execute "$swap_activity" on the local machine. Reading the code again I see something I ignored last time: 'qx' spawns a background process to get (and save!) these information. At first I thought it would read them back into 'parallel'. Thomas
