Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:06:34 -0800 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [patch] swapin rlimit |
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Ingo wrote: > Seriously, while nr_swapped_in_pages ought to be OK, i think there is a > generic problem with /proc based stats. > > System instrumentation people are already complaining about how costly > /proc parsing is. If you have to get some nontrivial stat from all > threads in the system, and if Linux doesnt offer that counter or summary > by default, it gets pretty expensive.
Agreed.
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