Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261841AbUKJDhM (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:37:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261850AbUKJDhM (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:37:12 -0500 Received: from siaag1aa.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.3]:18620 "EHLO siaag1aa.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261841AbUKJDhA (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:37:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:34:21 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: balance_pgdat(): where is total_scanned ever updated? To: Andrew Morton Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200411092236_MC3-1-8E5A-C9FD@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 660 Lines: 17 Andrew Morton wrote: > There's lots of useful info in /proc/vmstat. And the documentation on these fields is the source code itself, right? :) The nr_dirty field seems kind of useless -- why not have nr_dirtied and nr_cleaned instead? Analysis tools can subtract them to get nr_dirty. Or is there some other field that shows the nr of pages being dirtied? --Chuck Ebbert 09-Nov-04 22:13:44 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/