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From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Strange VM stats in /proc/zoneinfo
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:05:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208151105.27411.ptesarik@suse.cz> (raw)

Hi folks,

while looking at my /proc/zoneinfo, I noticed that the counters are a bit 
strange:

Node 0, zone      DMA
  pages free     3945
        min      7
        low      8
        high     10
        scanned  0
        spanned  4080
        present  3905
    nr_free_pages 3945

OK, you'll probably argue that the rest is hidden in PCP differentials... BUT:

1. this machine has only 2 CPUs
2. stat_threshold = 4
3. vm_stat_diff[NR_FREE_PAGES] = 0 on both CPUs

Is this only me? Or do I misrepresent what these number actually tell?

TIA,
Petr Tesarik

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-08-15  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-15  9:05 Petr Tesarik [this message]
2012-08-15 11:37 ` Strange VM stats in /proc/zoneinfo Petr Tesarik
2012-08-15 19:01 ` Rik van Riel

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