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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] fix incorrect mm->hiwater_vm and mm->hiwater_rss
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Jay Lan wrote:
>
> It is not really an issue of out-of-tree accounting package. The
> system accounting is based on very old technology and needs improvement.
> The issue we face is not an issue of one particular accounting package.
>
> I think the best approach would be to wrap the mm usage accounting
> in a new CONFIG_ENHANCED_SYS_ACCT and leave it OFF by default so that
> people can still get the minimal accounting with
> CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT.

Yes, please: that sounds right. With macros which dissolve to nothing
when it's off, to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_....s throughout the source.c.
#ifdef around the mm fields themselves? Probably best that way.

Still need a pointer in the Kconfig to some project that uses these.

Still sceptical that hiwater_vm and hiwater_rss are the magic
missing numbers which bring system accounting into the 21st century:
more to come?

Thanks,
Hugh
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