Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:28:35 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid <greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Raymond Law <flaw@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD VM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011162023130.8668-100000@sobek.nevernet.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20001116105701.00b69320@mail.vt.edu>
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Raymond Law wrote:
> majflt doesn't increase when a process is generating page faults. Instead,
> the swapper process (pid 0) gets all the page faults and it is the same as
> the page faults given by cnt in vmmeter.c. Why is this happening? Is
> there a way to get the number of page faults generated by a SINGLE process?
Yes.
ps -o majflt -p <pid>
The code which increments the number of page faults for a given process is
found in /sys/vm/vm_fault.c (circa line
856): curproc->p_stats->p_ru.ru_majflt++;
> The above doesn't get increased.
Yes, it does - certainly in 5.0-CURRENT and a quick look at the CVS
repository reveals this code has been present for over 6 years.
"And then it comes to be that the soothing light
at the end of your tunnel was just a freight
train, comin' your way."
George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org
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