Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:55:04 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0-test4 -- add context switch counters |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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