On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:36:05PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Statistics like this are cheap to use in runtime and should provide
> > > concrete information rather than guesses and estimations...
> >
> > I've been using LTT (Linux Trace Toolkit) to do similar stuff.
>
> But you can't expect everybody to use LTT. If you just make a couple of
> counters and give an easy way to get the values from userspace (proc,
> sysctl, syslog), you'll get bug reports with real information. IMHO
> data from real world workloads make more sense than "it doesn't work"
> reports.
Agreed.
I'm looking forward to do something similar to what Paul Buder suggested,
when I have time.
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