Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:34:21 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: balance_pgdat(): where is total_scanned ever updated? |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> There's lots of useful info in /proc/vmstat.
And the documentation on these fields is the source code itself, right? :)
The nr_dirty field seems kind of useless -- why not have nr_dirtied and nr_cleaned instead? Analysis tools can subtract them to get nr_dirty. Or is there some other field that shows the nr of pages being dirtied?
--Chuck Ebbert 09-Nov-04 22:13:44 - 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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