Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:49:00 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>, Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103090837490.10629-100000@husten.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <200103090126.f291QLO05885@earth.backplane.com>
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Hi Matt,
[...great comments on the VM writeup from the handbook...]
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
> This type of load is visible by noting the amount of page scanning
> the system does (the 'sr' field in vmstat) and the number of reactivations
> (the 're' field in vmstat). A reactivation occurs when the system has
> moved a page (typically) to the Inactive or Cache queue, but then some
> program accesses it again and forces the system to take a VM fault and put
> the page back into the Active queue.
About a year ago, I was looking through the VM code, and saw that the
're' field in vmstat is just Cache reactivations, and not both
Inactive & Cache. I just figured it was how it was supposed to be.
Could it be that 're' should include *all* reactivations?
If so, would I be correct in suggesting:
Index: vm_page.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_page.c,v
retrieving revision 1.147.2.6
diff -u -r1.147.2.6 vm_page.c
--- vm_page.c 2001/03/03 23:06:09 1.147.2.6
+++ vm_page.c 2001/03/09 07:36:13
@@ -990,7 +990,8 @@
s = splvm();
if (m->queue != PQ_ACTIVE) {
- if ((m->queue - m->pc) == PQ_CACHE)
+ if ((m->queue - m->pc) == PQ_CACHE ||
+ (m->queue - m->pc) == PQ_INACTIVE)
cnt.v_reactivated++;
vm_page_unqueue(m);
...or maybe even just something like ( (m->queue - m->pc) != PQ_FREE )
-Paul.
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