04-26-2002
Try the vmstat command.
vmstat -s will show you quite a bit about your system. Do a man on vmstat to find out more.
Regarding your philsophical differences about HPUX paging methods, I am sure that they have worked out whatever you may percieve as problems with their method of paging.
If you would go to HP's very good site.
www.itrc.hp.com It is a forum they have setup to answer all types of questions.
I am sure that you would find the answer there.
Last edited by Kelam_Magnus; 04-26-2002 at 01:28 PM..
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VFS_READAHEAD(8) VFS_READAHEAD(8)
NAME
vfs_readahead - pre-load the kernel buffer cache
SYNOPSIS
vfs objects = readahead
DESCRIPTION
This VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite.
This vfs_readahead VFS module detects read requests at multiples of a given offset (hex 0x80000 by default) and then tells the kernel via
either the readahead system call (on Linux) or the posix_fadvise system call to pre-fetch this data into the buffer cache.
This module is useful for Windows Vista clients reading data using the Windows Explorer program, which asynchronously does multiple file
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This module is stackable.
OPTIONS
readahead:offset = BYTES
The offset multiple that causes readahead to be requested of the kernel buffer cache.
readahead:length = BYTES
The number of bytes requested to be read into the kernel buffer cache on each readahead call.
The following suffixes may be applied to BYTES:
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o M - BYTES is a number of megabytes
o G - BYTES is a number of gigabytes
EXAMPLES
[hypothetical]
vfs objects = readahead
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite.
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
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