vmstat – what it is and how to use?

2011-04-24 2 min read Linux
Image via Wikipedia vmstat provides a summary of various functions within the system, including system wide free memory, paging counters, summarized disk activity, system calls and cpu utilization. The output of vmstat and description of what each field means: The first line of output from vmstat shows a summary since boot, followed by the output over the last 3 seconds for each additional line. The vmstat command reports the amount of swap space that is free (not reserved or allocated). Continue reading

Are you swapped? Increase the performance of Linux machine.

2010-07-14 2 min read Fedora Linux
With the ever increasing cost of the Hardware, the amount of physical RAM available on the system is increasing day by day. For example, couple of years back, I had a system which was very high end Desktop with 256MB RAM and today I have a 2GB RAM Desktop. So, whats the point. The Linux systems (right word should be kernel) are desiged to use both RAM and swap partition. Continue reading

Resolved - New window does not open in new tab after installation of some plugin's.

2010-05-13 2 min read Linux
After I installed some plugin’s, the new windows were not opening in the tab. Rather they were opening in new window. This consumes time and memory which I did not like. I checked and re-checked to confirm that the setting for opening new window in tab was in there and still ………. alas…….. So, I reverted to checking if I could do something in the about:config entries to do the trick and yes it was there. Continue reading