Re: VM suggestion...

[Erik Mouw]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:36:05PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Statistics like this are cheap to use in runtime and should provide
> > concrete information rather than guesses and estimations...
> 
> I've been using LTT (Linux Trace Toolkit) to do similar stuff. 

But you can't expect everybody to use LTT. If you just make a couple of
counters and give an easy way to get the values from userspace (proc,
sysctl, syslog), you'll get bug reports with real information. IMHO
data from real world workloads make more sense than "it doesn't work"
reports.

Erik

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