From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:12:18 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: meminfo or Rephrased helping the Programmer's help themselves... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Cc: John Carter , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > I've been looking at this sort of thing for a year and a half now. I've > begged and pleaded on the main kernel list for documentation, meaningful > performance statistics, control knobs, etc. Linux is not > enterprise-ready until it has these. I've even made a proposal; see > > http://www.borasky-research.net/Cougar.htm That's a _very_ high overview proposal. A good start would be defining what statistics are missing from the kernel and how exactly you'd want to collect those. > I *could* devote the rest of my life to building what *I* believe is > necessary, but given the chaotic nature of the Linux development process > relative to, say, SEI level 2, I'm reluctant to devote what little > sanity I have left to jousting this particular windmill. One step at a time. It _is_ possible to put better statistics into the Linux kernel, as long as they are sent in in manageable chunks. Speaking of which, I need to resubmit my iowait statistics patch. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org -- 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/