[geeks] vmstat modification

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:58:25PM -0700, William S. wrote:
> I tried running it and it just hung there.
> Maybe it's the version I have and the fact
> it is a Linux OS. Are you using Solaris/SUN
> with that?

I was rather surprised by that solution - pipes are buffered* and so you
won't get any output immediately, and when you do start getting output,
it's going to be very bursty.

* - at least, they appear to be when I try it on this 'ere Linux box.

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