> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:43:24 -0700 > > Michael Rubin <mrubin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Wait. These counters appear in /proc/vmstat. So why create standalone > > /proc/sys/vm files as well? > > I did not know they would show up in /proc/vmstat. > > I thought it made sense to put them in /proc/sys/vm since the other > writeback controls are there. > but have no problems just adding them to /prov/vmstat if that makes more sense. ? /proc/vmstat already have both. cat /proc/vmstat |grep nr_dirty cat /proc/vmstat |grep nr_writeback Also, /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo show per-node stat. Perhaps, I'm missing your point. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href