From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 953A238C0C for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:59:11 -0300 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:59:11 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC] VM statistics to gather In-Reply-To: <200106252339.f5PNd9x07535@maile.telia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Roger Larsson Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: > What about > > unsigned int vm_pgfails /* failed alloc attempts, in pages (not calls) */ What would that represent ? How often __alloc_pages() exits without allocating anything? > maybe even a > > unsigned int vm_pgallocs /* alloc attempts, in pages */ > > for sanity checking - should be the sum of several other combinations... Sounds like a nice idea. > 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... Comments, anyone? regards, Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/