From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 06:46:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 06:46:34 -0400 Received: from mail.muc.eurocyber.net ([195.143.108.5]:44493 "EHLO mail.muc.eurocyber.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 06:46:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3B20ACF4.D72866A1@TeraPort.de> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:46:12 +0200 From: "Martin.Knoblauch" Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-ac9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: VM suggestion... Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------F6FEDAD05F0F517CFDE77C8A" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F6FEDAD05F0F517CFDE77C8A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >While you guys are in there hacking, perhaps consider adding metrics >which allows you to tell exactly when certain cases and conditions are >hit. > page_aged_while_sleeping_in_page_lauder++ > >Statistics like this are cheap to use in runtime and should provide >concrete information rather than guesses and estimations... after following the several [very entertaining/enlightening] threads on VM [mis]behaviour, I wanted to ask a similar question: are there any counters/statistics about the various buffers/caches in the VMS system, that are easily available to userland? I know other Unix OSSes, where you can get a lot of information about the efficiency of the subsystem. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759 --------------F6FEDAD05F0F517CFDE77C8A Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="Martin.Knoblauch.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Martin.Knoblauch Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Martin.Knoblauch.vcf" begin:vcard n:Knoblauch;Martin tel;cell:+49-170-4904759 tel;fax:+49-89-510857-111 tel;work:+49-89-510857-309 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.teraport.de org:TeraPort GmbH;C+ITS adr:;;Garmischer Straße 4;München;Bayern;D-80339;Germany version:2.1 email;internet:Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de title:Senior System Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;-7008 fn:Martin Knoblauch end:vcard --------------F6FEDAD05F0F517CFDE77C8A--