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&lt;URL:<a href="http://www.hesketh.com/schampeo/Faces/" rel="ugc">http://www.hesketh.com/schampeo/Faces/</a>&gt; is the previous Java applet, if anyone wants to check it out. The idea is that a face will be more easily and more quickly recognizable - buggy eyes for lots of swapping, frowning for lots of disk activity. <br />

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<URL:http://www.hesketh.com/schampeo/Faces/ [http://www.hesketh.com/schampeo/Faces/]> is the previous Java applet, if anyone wants to check it out. The idea is that a face will be more easily and more quickly recognizable - buggy eyes for lots of swapping, frowning for lots of disk activity.


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rstatd returns certain information about the system when queried via RPC calls. Perfmeter (on Suns) displays ten parameters (cpu, disk, swap, context, etc.) rstatd, however, returns four values for CPU and four for disk, which are wildly different. Anybody know what each of these values means, and how to scale the values returned to a fixed scale? I'm trying to write (extend) a Java applet I wrote so that it can be used as a quick reference to system performance, and I don't know how to deal with these values.
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rstatd returns certain information about the system when queried via RPC calls. Perfmeter (on Suns) displays ten parameters (cpu, disk, swap, context, etc.) rstatd, however, returns four values for CPU and four for disk, which are wildly different. Anybody know what each of these values means, and how to scale the values returned to a fixed scale? I'm trying to write (extend) a Java applet I wrote so that it can be used as a quick reference to system performance, and I don't know how to deal with these values.

rstatd output - explain?

Kernel and system programming is the process of creating the software necessary for a computer or device to function and operate other programs. Some operating systems (such as Microsoft Windows) are proprietary, but others, such as the various Linux distributions, are open source.