Re: vmstat

["Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>]

> >> is there any function similiar to the unix vmstat
> >> that can run under cygwin
> >For now you can download procps (which contains vmstat) from here:
> >http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/
> >Hopefully this will be available via Cygwin setup sometime soon.
>
> There is, however, the problem of what to do about the fact that your
> package apparently, AFAICT, overwrites the cygwin ps.exe.  I don't think
> we're quite ready to drop the "native" ps.exe yet.
If it overwrites it, then I have packaged it wrongly. It should put ps.exe
and kill.exe into separate subdirectories, i.e. /bin/procps/ps.exe and
/usr/bin/procps/kill.exe.
Indeed, I have just verified that this is what happens.
In other words, if you want to use the procps versions of ps and kill (which
don't support Windows processes), then you can add /bin/procps and
/usr/bin/procps to your path ahead of /bin. By default you are using the
Cygwin versions.

Chris



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