Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:45:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:45:50 -0400 Received: from relay04.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.238]:50192 "EHLO relay04.valueweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:45:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3D326D5E.B2D228C0@opersys.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 02:36:14 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, French/Canada, French/France, fr-FR, fr-CA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manik Raina CC: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, 2.5] : Adding counters to BSD process accounting References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 28 Manik Raina wrote: > This patch keeps account of the number of bytes read/written by a > process in it's lifetime. > > This may be a good estimate of how IO bound a process is. > This change is integrated with the BSD process accounting feature. Please > review the changes and if you're ok with it, please apply to the 2.5 tree. This is yet another piece of information LTT already provides. If you're interested in analyzing the I/O operations carried out by a process and how these operations influence other processes' I/O, then LTT is a very good place to look. Cheers, Karim =================================================== Karim Yaghmour karim@opersys.com Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert =================================================== - 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/