The sad thing about the Linux tradition is that we have totally lost touch with our Unix roots and therefore we all have gaps like this one in our background. It takes us much, much longer to learn the system internals because of this. Sigh.
What a typically west-coast attitude!! ;^) *ducks*
(No problem, this is mostly an oral tradition, where everyone learns the weird stuff by word-of-mouth. There's probably a really slick sociology paper in there somewhere, on the oralist traditions of cutting-edge technology, looking at the lag between knowledge being word-of-mouth and its becoming written gospel. And then how long for that to be truly obsolete versus just forgotten, like poor neglected 'vmstat' =)
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Date: 2005-07-13 02:07 am (UTC)'vmstat', m'boy, 'vmstat'.
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thank you for the tip!
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Date: 2005-07-13 02:49 am (UTC)(No problem, this is mostly an oral tradition, where everyone learns the weird stuff by word-of-mouth. There's probably a really slick sociology paper in there somewhere, on the oralist traditions of cutting-edge technology, looking at the lag between knowledge being word-of-mouth and its becoming written gospel. And then how long for that to be truly obsolete versus just forgotten, like poor neglected 'vmstat' =)