From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751222AbWFLS7U (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:59:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752171AbWFLS7U (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:59:20 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:14025 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751222AbWFLS7T (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:59:19 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: rohitseth@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number =?utf-8?q?of=09physical_pages_backing?= it Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:58:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1149903235.31417.84.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> <448A762F.7000105@yahoo.com.au> <1150133795.9576.19.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> In-Reply-To: <1150133795.9576.19.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606121958.41127.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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