From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:42:05 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: [RFC] VM statistics to gather Message-ID: <20010626084205.Q18856@redhat.com> References: <200106252339.f5PNd9x07535@maile.telia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:59:11PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Roger Larsson , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:59:11PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Should memory zone be used as dimension? > > Useful for allocations I guess, but it may be too confusing > if we do this for all statistics... OTOH... Then user space monitor apps can summarise over all zones. Rik, having this information available per-zone is critically important for doing VM tuning. Whenever we see VM lockups, being able to deduce when we're spinning on a single zone will be enormously helpful. Cheers, Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/