Re: too much context switching
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:20:18 -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
> I'm learning about various tools to monitor performance. I'm reading
> about vmstat right now, and it says that context switching, if very
> high, can be an indicator of misbehaving hardware
Hi ChadDavis, can you post more about this vmstat and context switching
please? what the material you are reading say about them? I'm interested
to know.
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:04:31 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> I dunno what that means, neither if lower values are better or worse nor
> why. Let's see what people has to say on this regard :-)
Just for the comparison as well. Here is mine:
$ vmstat 5 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 0 65948 1100224 174076 778868 0 0 95 67 2 18 8 2 89 1
0 1 65948 1100092 174076 778900 0 0 0 6 386 675 1 0 98 0
0 0 65948 1099968 174076 778900 0 0 0 13 340 637 2 1 97 0
1 0 65948 1099852 174084 778900 0 0 0 90 753 1560 9 3 87 1
0 0 65948 1099852 174092 778900 0 0 0 13 399 735 2 1 96 0
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