Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Thu Apr 12 2007 - 22:18:36 EST


On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:57:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I guess one could generate an answer to the static question with systemtap,
> by accumulating running counts across the application lifetime and then
> snapshotting them. Sounds hard though.

You'd have to do it from boot onward to get a complete system image.
One way to look at it is that systemtap can give you the derivative of
the information, and you have to integrate it.

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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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