Re: PPtop 0.1.1

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:58:21PM +0200, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> The vmstat statistics look like they are almost completely wrong.
> I have 243M swap as reported by swapon -a:
> swapon: /dev/hd0s5: Linux 2.2 swap signature v1, 248972k swap-space (excludes 8k at end of partition)
> 
> hurd:/mnt/disk/src/hurd/hurd/utils# vmstat
> This seems reasonable (except swap size is wrong) and is available for anybody:

> This is root-only and does not show any usage:
> swap size:       243M
> swap free:       243M

marcus@ulysses[1]:~/projects/acm$ echo 248972/1024|bc
243

swap size is correct.  That it is root only is only a bug in the current
Hurd package.  The next version has the proxy-defpager fixed, and then you
can have /servers/default-pager set to allow users to get that info.

Thanks,
Marcus

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