Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical pages backing it

Andi Kleen
2006-06-12T17:58:40Z

> It is just the price of those walks that makes smaps not an attractive
> solution for monitoring purposes.

It just shouldn't be used for that. It's a debugging hack and not really
suitable for monitoring even with optimizations.

For monitoring if the current numa statistics are not good enough
you should probably propose new counters.

-Andi