From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:36:20 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deprecate /proc/#/statm Message-ID: <20030813003620.GG3170@holomorphy.com> References: <20030811090213.GA11939@k3.hellgate.ch> <20030811160222.GE3170@holomorphy.com> <20030811215235.GB13180@k3.hellgate.ch> <20030811221646.GF3170@holomorphy.com> <20030812104046.GA6606@k3.hellgate.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030812104046.GA6606@k3.hellgate.ch> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Roger Luethi Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton List-ID: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:16:46 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Not entirely unreasonable. On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:40:46PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote: > Alright. We have established that /proc/#/statm has been useless at least > since 2.4. Procps doesn't even bother reading it. > I propose this very non-invasive patch for 2.6. It replaces all values > printed in statm (all of which are either redundant or bogus) with 0s (for > kblockd and others statm is a line of zeroes already). IMO the real surgery > should happen in 2.7. > Comments? Andrew? Best to just delete the code instead of the #if 0 -- wli -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org