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* major and minor fault counts (2.5)
@ 2003-07-07  4:24 Peter Chubb
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From: Peter Chubb @ 2003-07-07  4:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Folks,
   What are the major and minor fault counts in the struct task_struct
meant to count?

   On most Unix-like systems, a major fault is one that incurs I/O; a
minor fault (reclaim) is one that does not.  It appears that on Linux
2.5.74, some faults counted as `major' do not sleep (e.g., ones that
hit the swap readahead).

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