[Toybox] New toy: vmstat

David Seikel onefang at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 10:40:11 PDT 2012


On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:13:54 +0200 Elie De Brauwer
<eliedebrauwer at gmail.com> wrote:

> One sidenote with the query of the height though, how I frequently
> use vmstat is just redirect the output to a file, and use some
> scripts to do some datamining on it later (any spikes in cpu
> usage/interrupts/how is memory usage evolving over time ? ...) I
> think that using terminal escape sequences (you'd need to do these
> things periodically, not per se every loop) would break this
> approach ?

Perhaps man 3 isatty might be helpful?

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