From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:38:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183981098.1913.22.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D63B142.2080404@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Sun, 2028-02-27 at 02:39 -0500, Balbir Singh wrote:
> I am not a CLUI expert, but rounding off bytes will something that
> the administrators will probably complain about. Since we manage
> the controller memory in pages, it might be the easiest unit to use.
> The output is totally different matter.
>
> Having said that, I am not opposed to your suggestion, I'll see if
> I can find good CLUI guidelines.
Pages are generally considered a bad unit for user-space exposed
parameters because a page can have a wide spectrum of sizes on some
machines.
The typical unit used in its stead is KiB. Although I could imagine MiB
being more useful in this case :-)
Perhaps a new proc parser that takes postfix [KMG] units would be
handy..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-09 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-20 15:46 [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly Balbir Singh
2007-06-21 19:17 ` Paul Menage
2007-06-22 2:09 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-22 15:39 ` Paul Menage
2007-06-23 3:48 ` Balbir Singh
2007-06-25 7:19 ` Paul Menage
2007-06-26 12:39 ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-06-26 12:54 ` Balbir Singh
2007-06-26 14:05 ` Kirill Korotaev
2028-02-27 7:39 ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-09 11:38 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-07-10 4:44 ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-10 15:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-10 15:40 ` Balbir Singh
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