Re: [PATCH, 2.5] : Adding counters to BSD process accounting

From: Karim Yaghmour (karim@opersys.com)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 01:36:14 EST


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

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                 Karim Yaghmour
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