Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:59:08 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] [2.5.35] Run Queue Statistics |
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Hi,
> This patch adds two counters, runque and runocc, similar to those > in traditional UNIX systems, to measure the run queue occupancy. > Every second, 'runque' is incremented by the run queue size, and > 'runocc' is incremented by one if the run queue is not empty. > > I am not comfortable about putting the calculation in the same function > as the load average calculation, but I didn't want to call > count_active_tasks() twice. Comments are welcome.
On a semi related note, vmstat wants to know the number of running, blocked and swapped processes. strace vmstat one day and you will see it currently opens /proc/*/stat (ie one open for each process) just to get these stats. Yet another place where the monitoring utilities disturb the system way too much.
Can we get some things in /proc/stat to give us these numbers? Does "swapped" make any sense on Linux?
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