From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 13 10:10:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC2037C026 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p16-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.17]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id CAA17701; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 02:10:08 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39466B2D.23157F2A@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 02:11:09 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Matthew Dillon , David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. References: <14660.3153.658226.142964@trooper.velocet.net> <39453CC0.C19BB2CD@newsguy.com> <200006122358.QAA35805@apollo.backplane.com> <39466072.716FC252@newsguy.com> <39466497.41C67EA6@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > > One of the reasons I would like to see an actual 'ps axl' output > > > during one of these heavy paging periods rather then someone's analysis > > > of the output, is to check things like this. > > > > Don't look at me. After half an hour waiting, all I had managed to was > > switching to a console and having the letter "t" show up (I was trying > > for a "top"). > > If you have DDB in the kernel, > then drop into DDB and use the "ps" command in DDB. > It will suspend everything else. It won't let me copy it to a file, though. And this is AFTER having switched from X to a text screen, which already takes a lot of time. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message