[geeks] vmstat modification

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

wilby98 at yahoo.com writes:

>Dave,

>Actually, you were probably my inspiration. I was
>looking at your web site and noticed the minimal
>desktop you had on the screenshot. I too am striving
>to get things down to a simple display within fvwm2. I
>hate to waste memory on needless decoration and prefer
>text based applications rather than graphics.

Cool, thanks.

>I have a P166MMX with a 17" monitor running on a 2.4
>Linux kernel on a Debian (unstable) release. I also

I recently switched from a 1024 x 768 colour NCD x-terminal
to a 1280x1024 mono NCD x-terminal. Mono tubes are *so*
much easier on the eyes! I only use the colour terminal when
I'm using my camera. I gotta get one of these for work...

>have 8 Apollo's I am preparing to set up as a cluster
>under the Domain OS if they all work (just got 7 of
>them last week).

Where are you? I've got an Apollo looking for a good home.
How early are yours?

>For some reason the awk doesn't want to cooperate. I
>downloaded the source code for vmstat which is
>included withing the procpu Debian package. It is
>"Version: 0.99, last modified 15 January 94". I don't
>seem to be able to compile it (getting several
>"undefined references". I am not familiar with C
>enough to get it to work at this time. My strategy was
>to edit some of the printf functions so that that I
>could have the ones I wanted which in this case were :
>" SI SO US SY ID ".

Modifying vmstat would be a good solution. Harder to
port/maintain than the alternatives, but much more efficient.
Compiling for efficiency is a good things at times.

This brings up another pet peeve though: "ls" and "ps" should have
format string options like "date" instead of the ludicrous list
of options. Dammit.

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