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Re: TAKE - Implement the "/proc/sys/fs/xfs_stats" printout.

To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TAKE - Implement the "/proc/sys/fs/xfs_stats" printout.
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:29:14 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx> of "Wed, 31 May 2000 20:05:03 +0200." <20000531200503.A31398@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:37:11PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > > 
> > > XFS stats have been in the system for a long time; now they
> > > can be printed by:
> > > 
> > >   cat /proc/sys/fs/xfs_stats
> > > 
> > 
> > Ted,
> > 
> > probably /proc/fs/xfs/xfs_stats is a better place to put this, /proc/sys
> > tends to consist of things which control kernel tunables.
> 
> Also the format is hard to parse by a program. I'm sure someone somewhere
> will later curse you for that ;) 
> 
> -Andi


I think we will be changing that, and there already is a program to display
this stuff, the performance copilot at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/
the Irix version can understand all these numbers, hooking up the linux
one should not be too hard.

Steve



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