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Two tools that I would love more than anything

January 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I don’t think that these have been built yet by anyone, but I want these:

1. Swap Inspection Tool - a utility that can simply peer into swap space and tell me whatever it can about what is using it. PIDs, process names, anything. I know it’s just a snapshot, and it could all change very quickly, but so does ps output.

2. Filesystem Cache Inspection Tool - similar to above, but I’d like something that can allow me to look to see what is actually in filesystem cache at the current moment.

Am I on crack to think that these things could be built ?

Tags: tools

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Dusty Matthews // Jan 26, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    That Filesystem Cache thingy would be sick.

  • 2 Tool update: WTF is inside filesystem cache ? // Mar 27, 2008 at 5:04 am

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