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Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:23:35 +0200
From: Philip Lawatsch <philip@lawatsch.at>
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To: Philip Lawatsch <philip@lawatsch.at>
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Subject: Re: intr in /proc/stat and number of syscalls made
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Philip Lawatsch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to log some stats for one of my server.
> 
> Now what I wanted to log is the number of pagefaults and the number of 
> syscalls done since system startup.
> (I'm on a system without sysenter)
> 
> I thought that /proc/stat's intr line would provide information about 
> how often an interrupt was called. But it looks like there are only 
> stats about the irqs in there and not about all interrupts.
> 
> I've already found /proc/vmstat | grep pgfault which will give me the 
> number of pagefaults, but I'm still looking for a way to get the number 
> of syscalls.
> 
> I also think that the Documenation about /proc/stat is misleading 
> (perhaps putting the word irq somewhere in there would be a good idea).
> 
> 
> So, is there a way to find out how often the syscall interrupt / 
> sysenter handler was run? I'd actually prefer to get the number for each 
> interrupt because then I could also track some other nice things.

I forgot to add, I'm running a 2.6.13 on x86.

kind regards Philip
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