Re: "netstat -m" and sendfile(2) statistics in STABLE

From: Igor Sysoev (is_at_rambler-co.ru)
Date: 06/18/04

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:43:37 +0400 (MSD)
To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>

    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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