Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)

Theodore Tso
2007-12-24T03:57:28Z

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 03:15:00PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Same here. In fact, I've always considered that procfs was for
> > humans while sysfs was for tools. sysfs reminds me too much the
> > unexploitable /devices in Solaris. With the proper tools, I think
> > we can do a lot with it, but it's not as intuitive to find the
> > proper tools as it was to do "ls" followed by "cat" in /proc.
>
> find /sys/... -type f | while read i ; do echo "$i: $(<$i)" ; done
>
> tends to work reasonably well for a quick overview, but yes
> cat was nicer for humans.

Until you start to wonder what the heck :a-0000136 is:

/sys/slab/:a-0000136/objs_per_slab: 30

Sigh...

- Ted