On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:18:59 +0900 (JST) KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro > > <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > /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. > > > > These only show the number of dirty pages present in the system at the > > point they are queried. > > The counter I am trying to add are increasing over time. They allow > > developers to see rates of pages being dirtied and entering writeback. > > Which is very helpful. > > Usually administrators get the data two times and subtract them. Isn't it sufficient? > Nope. The existing nr_dirty is "number of pages dirtied since boot" minus "number of pages cleaned since boot". If you do the wait-one-second-then-subtract thing on nr_dirty, the result is dirtying-bandwidth minus cleaning-bandwidth, and can't be used to determine dirtying-bandwidth. I can see that a graph of dirtying events versus time could be an interesting thing. I don't see how it could be obtained using the existing instrumentation. tracepoints, probably.. -- 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=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>