Re: /proc/{diskstats,schedstat,vmstat} documentation

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Marko,

On 05/13/2015 11:50 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> it seems that /proc/vmstat is undocumented in proc(5), is it just
> because nobody has written the documentation yet or are some files
> considered out of scope for proc(5)? Other such "interesting" file which
> would be nice to have documented in-line is IMHO /proc/diskstats.

It's just because no one has taken the time... There are in fact many holes
in proc(5) :-(.

> FWIW, for /proc/vmstat first search hit is
> http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_vmstat.html which looks decent.

Well, it has some of the needed info, but there's many more entries in
the file than are listed there.

> I also see that /proc/schedstat and /proc/<pid>/schedstat are missing,
> some information about them can be found at
> http://eaglet.rain.com/rick/linux/schedstat/v15/format-15.html and
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt.
> 
> Lastly, /proc/<pid>/{loginuid,sessionid} are missing.
> 
> PS. Yes, I think I try to provide patches at least for a couple of these
> cases if time permits.

That would be great.

Thanks,

Michael



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