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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:43:37 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
Subject:   Re: "netstat -m" and sendfile(2) statistics in STABLE
Message-ID:  <20040618103517.L81288@is.park.rambler.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040618012806.H72823@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <20040618094356.O22477@is.park.rambler.ru> <20040618062418.GU61448@elvis.mu.org> <20040618012806.H72823@odysseus.silby.com>

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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> > I was going to suggest vmstat now that sfbufs are used for so many
> > other things than just "sendfile bufs".
> >
> > --
> > - Alfred Perlstein
>
> How about if we do this:
>
> 5.x:  List sfbufs both in vmstat _and_ in netstat -m, as their status is
> relevant to both network and general memory usage.
>
> 4.x:  MFC the vmstat implementation.
>
> This would preserve 4.x's behavior, but allow 5.x users (who have a new
> netstat -m output format anyway) to see sfbuf information without invocing
> multiple utilities.

In 4.x sfbufs are network buffers only and I think it's handy to see
the network buffer statistics in one place. I prefer to see netstat -ms
or netstat -m.

And nothing against additional the vmstat implementation.


Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/



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