Re: monitoring swap i/o

+1 for "sar"...another option would be to use "iostat"..

Running "iostat" with a "tail -f" might be what you are looking for..

~Chamith

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:05 +0100, Ron Herbert wrote:
> looks on "sar" you can report statistics for a given process (or from
> the system)
> 
> Firefox: i think firefox is a monolith a tab isn't a childprozess (may
> be you find a addone, that say you more about firefox)
> 
> 
> fridy
> 
> 2009/1/11, Pol <[email protected]>:
> >
> > I would like to be able to exactly monitor programs i/o in the swap
> > area; 'top' does not seem to be the right tool as processes are sorted
> > according to the total amount of swap space used, while i would like
> > processes with high i/o activity (albeit in small amounts) to be
> > highlighted.
> >
> > My case is with firefox and konqueror. They stay silently for hours, then
> > i/o starts, as one can hear that typical noise from the disk and as it can
> > be checked with 'vmstat'.
> > Also i would like to locate programs more precisely, to tell which browser
> > tab, which plugin has triggered that swapping.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
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