From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757214AbXFUTRu (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:17:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754601AbXFUTRn (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:17:43 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:33342 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753934AbXFUTRm (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:17:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=qBMFJubYZTB1l86RAo3BiSQWnyT++x5WmjFa0MHJVlG4Pq5xWQwwQap1fHjphBNxj U/qWLT9RZuUC0tgg+Ihhw== Message-ID: <6599ad830706211217l65d76d4ehb42f9165bcf45dd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:17:27 -0700 From: "Paul Menage" To: "Balbir Singh" Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Pavel Emelianov" , "Linux Containers" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <20070620154655.13844.42876.sendpatchset@balbir-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070620154655.13844.42876.sendpatchset@balbir-laptop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/20/07, Balbir Singh wrote: > > > Display the current usage and limit in a more user friendly manner. Number > of pages can be confusing if the page size is different. Some systems > can choose a page size of 64KB. I'm not sure that's such a great idea. "Human-friendly" representations would make programmatic parsing harder. What's wrong with just showing counts in bytes in the control files? Paul