From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: /proc/{diskstats,schedstat,vmstat} documentation Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 15:03:07 +0200 Message-ID: <55534B8B.8010400@gmail.com> References: <55531E5F.2090803@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <55531E5F.2090803-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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//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//{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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html