From: Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
sworddragon2@aol.com, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 53501] New: Duplicated MemTotal with different values
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:21:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51316242.1010206@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1302192305560.27407@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On 02/20/2013 03:09 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Simon Jeons wrote:
>
>> What I confuse is why have /proc/meminfo and /proc/vmstat at the same time,
>> they both use to monitor memory subsystem states. What's the root reason?
>>
> This has nothing to do with this thread, but /proc/vmstat actually does
> not include the MemTotal value being discussed in this thread that
> /proc/meminfo does. /proc/meminfo is typically the interface used by
> applications, probably mostly for historical purposes since both are
Do you mean /proc/vmstat is not used by applications.
sar -B 1
pgpgin/s pgpgout/s fault/s majflt/s pgfree/s pgscank/s pgscand/s
pgsteal/s %vmeff
I think they are read from /proc/vmstat
> present when procfs is configured and mounted, but also to avoid
> determining the native page size. There's no implicit userspace API
> exported by /proc/vmstat.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-53501-27@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2013-02-13 0:51 ` [Bug 53501] New: Duplicated MemTotal with different values Andrew Morton
2013-02-13 1:45 ` David Rientjes
2013-02-13 3:59 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-14 3:19 ` David Rientjes
2013-02-14 4:01 ` Jiang Liu
2013-02-15 0:26 ` David Rientjes
2013-02-20 5:21 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-20 7:09 ` David Rientjes
2013-03-02 2:21 ` Simon Jeons [this message]
2013-03-04 11:18 ` David Rientjes
2013-03-04 23:39 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-05 21:53 ` David Rientjes
2013-02-16 16:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] vm: add 'MemManaged' field to /proc/meminfo and /sys/.../nodex/meminfo Jiang Liu
2013-02-19 21:29 ` David Rientjes
2013-02-20 17:27 ` [PATCH v2] mm: let /proc/meminfo report physical memory installed as "MemTotal" Jiang Liu
2013-02-20 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-21 17:26 ` Jiang Liu
2013-02-21 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-22 19:22 ` Jiang Liu
2013-02-16 16:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: protect si_meminfo() and si_meminfo_node() from memory hotplug operations Jiang Liu
2013-02-19 21:32 ` David Rientjes
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