James Wright wrote:

raymond raymond wrote:

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Hi, there, I use the vmstat command and got the following information:

linux:/proc # vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 4 0 0 6496 53620 319828 0 0 373 96 1124 1677 17 4 70 9

I am not very clear about the "IO" section. What does bi and bo mean? Could someone explain it for me? Or where can I find the explaination of thoes things?

Thanks

Raymond

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I would guess Bits In and Bits Out. Possibly bytes.

James W

According to the man page - blocks-in, blocks-out. Mike F. -- To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.

* Randall R Schulz [09-06-05 20:48]:

Of course, it's "According to the man page".

I'm beginning to see a lot of this lately, "man page". Must be something new. Gee, there is a BUNCH of them files on my hard drive. Wonder what they are for? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

Patrick, On Tuesday 06 September 2005 19:24, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Randall R Schulz [09-06-05 20:48]:

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Of course, it's "According to the man page".

I'm beginning to see a lot of this lately, "man page". Must be something new.

Very new. They were introduced in the 1970s, as I recall...

Gee, there is a BUNCH of them files on my hard drive. Wonder what they are for?

There's much speculation, but no definitive facts to shed any light on their use or reason for existence. Probably no one will ever know.

Patrick Shanahan

RRS

* jdd sur free [09-07-05 12:20]:

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Randall, some pity for the poor lonsome newbie :-)

who, me <grin>...

Patrick,

1) please explaint in the _subject line_ what your are asking about, typing help don't help us to help you :-)

suggest you read the *entire* thread, thanks. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

Carlos E. R. wrote:

Mmmm... I'll expand on Patrick terse answer.

You should select on your email reader to sort by thread - in Mozilla (you use Mozilla, right?) just click on the column header to the left of "subject", the one with a "dialog bubble" icon. Then you will see, nicely sorted, all emails posted on this "thread", and you will notice that the subject line you complain about is not Patrick's but Raymond's. Ie, Raymond is the OP and the one you should direct your point 1) and 2) to.

we are not on news, here but on a mailing-list. I can't affort to keep on my computer the ~200 mails I receive a day, so I counted on the names given on the mail I anwsered. The name was not that important, I think the one I wrote for did recognise himself and Patrick wont be too upset by this mistake :-) jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* jdd sur free [09-08-05 01:11]:

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The name was not that important, I think the one I wrote for did recognise himself and Patrick wont be too upset by this mistake :-)

Appears that you consider *your* name important or you would not have responded to Curtis' post.

Hummmm

sorry you think so. I try to help beginners, that's all. jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2005-09-08 at 08:10 +0200, jdd sur free wrote:

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Mmmm... I'll expand on Patrick terse answer. You should select on your email reader to sort by thread - in Mozilla (you use Mozilla, right?) just click on the column header to the left of "subject", the one with a "dialog bubble" icon. Then you will see, nicely sorted, all emails posted on this "thread", and you will notice that the subject line you complain about is not Patrick's but Raymond's. Ie, Raymond is the OP and the one you should direct your point 1) and 2) to.

we are not on news, here but on a mailing-list. I can't affort to keep on my computer the ~200 mails I receive a day,

Why not? On this list alone, I have more than 8000 emails stored (Jun 1). I actually have around two years saved on other folders. No big deal :-p

so I counted on the names given on the mail I anwsered.

And so you got it wrong, threading on Patrick toes ;-) I would keep at least the last 30 days of emails, else you loose track of what is being said. Some mail clients can erase or purge automatically old emails from a folder. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDIE4ftTMYHG2NR9URAiOTAJ4hdsK6MKW+W0jtiEskPbzSumlqmQCghhle sKjj5ZfvT9zl382fcMSiXpg= =iJb7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----