From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0-test4 -- add context switch counters
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:55:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030828165504.GA21352@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030827075143.GX4306@holomorphy.com>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:51:43AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:39:27PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> > It's unclear what `swaps' are in Linux. Traditionally, this rusage
> > field was the number of complete swapouts --- I'm not sure what the
> > equivalent is when processes are not swapped out holus-bolus, but are
> > paged gradually.
>
> We don't have load control yet; the counters should probably be removed
> until we do.
Why not just count the number of pages swapped in/out per process? I'm sure
that would be helpful for VM tools polling for stats from userspace... And
even in the development of load control.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-28 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-27 0:57 [PATCH] 2.6.0-test4 -- add context switch counters Peter Chubb
2003-08-27 1:18 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-27 1:29 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 1:52 ` Peter Chubb
2003-08-27 7:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 7:39 ` Peter Chubb
2003-08-27 7:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-28 16:55 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-08-28 17:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-28 17:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-28 17:48 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-27 8:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 1:50 ` Peter Chubb
2003-08-27 7:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-18 1:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 14:41 ` bert hubert
2003-08-27 6:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 15:52 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-27 16:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 16:09 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-27 17:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
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