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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: interprtation of /proc/net/rpc/nfsd
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:05:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416B9E68.40009@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C61130435E96A@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com>

Lever, Charles wrote:

>>Well... zeroing out the nfs stats was something I proposed a 
>>while ago but got shoot down both internally and externally 
>>since zero out stats is "not the Linux way".... so I've taken 
>>the patch out of both FC and RHEL kernels, but I guess I 
>>forgot to take it out of the nfs-utils....
>>    
>>
>
>for the record, the reason that zeroing the kernel stats is a bad idea
>is that this should really be a user-space thing.  otherwise, if process
>A is sampling the stats and process B zeroes them, it will screw up
>process A's samples.
>  
>
This make senses for stats that measure time based things like bit rate or
latency.... but for stats that measure simple activity, sampling does not
really come into play.... imho...

SteveD.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-12  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-11 15:22 interprtation of /proc/net/rpc/nfsd Lever, Charles
2004-10-12  9:05 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-08 10:09 Jehan PROCACCIA
2004-10-08 13:03 ` James Pearson
2004-10-08 13:28   ` Jehan PROCACCIA
2004-10-08 14:43     ` James Pearson
2004-10-08 15:46       ` Jehan PROCACCIA
2004-10-11 11:13         ` Steve Dickson
2004-10-11 13:01           ` Jehan PROCACCIA

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