On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 12:11:40AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > Umm, OK. I suppose that BSD prints this stuff? If so,
> > somebody please send me an output sample and explanation
> > so that I know where to put this stuff.
>
> Some of the fields recently added to /proc/meminfo are very
> dependent on the internal of the memory management of the
> kernel, I don't think it's good idea to make them part of the
> user<->kernel API because there are alteratvive algorithms that
> won't generate those numbers and that can generate different
> ones.
If you have a better idea for memory management, I'd
like to hear it ;)
cheers,
Rik
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