Re: 2.6 vm/elevator loading down disks where 2.4 does not

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:03:38PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> That brings up an interesting point... is there a system wide stat that 
> tells me how effective the file cache is? I guess majfaults/s fits that 
> bill to some degree.

/proc/vmstat should log global major/minor fault counters (actually
summed on the fly per-cpu counters). I fixed those to properly report
major and minor faults for 2.6. The analogous numbers where they are
present are completely and utterly meaningless gibberish in 2.4.


-- wli
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