From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Clint Byrum <cbyrum@spamaps.org>
Cc: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6 vm/elevator loading down disks where 2.4 does not
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 23:10:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040610061024.GW1444@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EAAE7256-BAA3-11D8-B30D-000A95730E92@spamaps.org>
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:03:38PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> That brings up an interesting point... is there a system wide stat that
> tells me how effective the file cache is? I guess majfaults/s fits that
> bill to some degree.
/proc/vmstat should log global major/minor fault counters (actually
summed on the fly per-cpu counters). I fixed those to properly report
major and minor faults for 2.6. The analogous numbers where they are
present are completely and utterly meaningless gibberish in 2.4.
-- wli
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-10 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-08 19:51 2.6 vm/elevator loading down disks where 2.4 does not Clint Byrum
2004-06-09 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 16:45 ` Clint Byrum
[not found] ` <2c0942db04060917542cb15077@mail.gmail.com>
2004-06-10 1:03 ` Ray Lee
2004-06-10 6:03 ` Clint Byrum
2004-06-10 6:10 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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