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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:22:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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To: Ravi Wijayaratne <ravi_wija@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: /proc/stat page in and out values
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Ravi Wijayaratne wrote:

| In /proc/stat the record as
|
| page x y
|
| which indicates cumulative page in and out values.
| To my best undertstanding this info is stored in
| kstat.pgpgin and kstat.pgpgout.
|
| However the values are incremented in submit_bh in
| ll_rw_blk.c. So are we actually counting the buffers
| we write in and out or the pages; or is it the same ?

Please see if
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101770318012189&w=2
answers your questions.

-- 
~Randy

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