[mythtv-users] Mythbackend recording glitches

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Tue Oct 23 10:35:09 UTC 2018


On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 15:33 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> That is good to know.  Swapping problems are very difficult to detect
> and debug as there are no good tools to monitor swapping activity that
> I know of.  Just seeing swap space in use unfortunately does not tell
> you that it is causing a problem.

FWIW `vmstat` output does include columns for pages swapped in and out
per second, so if those are both large that would indicate thrashing,
not sure if that counts as a "good" tool though ;-).

Ian.



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