Re: [PATCH] NFS: Zeroing NFS and kNFSD stats

[Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:17:59AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> But you could exactly the same thing by recording the values at the
> beginning of the test run and then subtracting.  In practice this is
> likely to be annoying, so you'd want to write utilities that did this
> for you, like say
> 
> checkpoint_stats stats.txt
> display_stats --since stats.txt

But it sucks. I had folks run something like 12-15 performance
measurements and take the NFS stats, and it was a huge mess
to sort through. Telling folks "use nfsstat -z to wipe stats
before each command" is much easier. Besides, -z is sort of
a standard option, so we might as well implement it.

Olaf
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