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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:29:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070710082904.b0faaddd.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46930EAF.6030104@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:44:31 -0700 Balbir Singh wrote:

> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sun, 2028-02-27 at 02:39 -0500, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > 
> >> I am not a CLUI expert, but rounding off bytes will something that
> >> the administrators will probably complain about. Since we manage
> >> the controller memory in pages, it might be the easiest unit to use.
> >> The output is totally different matter.
> >>
> >> Having said that, I am not opposed to your suggestion, I'll see if
> >> I can find good CLUI guidelines.
> > 
> > Pages are generally considered a bad unit for user-space exposed
> > parameters because a page can have a wide spectrum of sizes on some
> > machines.
> > 
> 
> Exactly!
> 
> > The typical unit used in its stead is KiB. Although I could imagine MiB
> > being more useful in this case :-)
> > 
> 
> I think a routine that can handle either KiB or MiB would probably be the best
> 
> > Perhaps a new proc parser that takes postfix [KMG] units would be
> > handy..
> > 
> 
> Hmm.. yes.. a library routine would be nice!

you mean something like lib/cmdline.c::memparse() ?

---
~Randy
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-20 15:46 [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly Balbir Singh
2007-06-21 19:17 ` Paul Menage
2007-06-22  2:09   ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-22 15:39     ` Paul Menage
2007-06-23  3:48       ` Balbir Singh
2007-06-25  7:19         ` Paul Menage
2007-06-26 12:39           ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-06-26 12:54             ` Balbir Singh
2007-06-26 14:05               ` Kirill Korotaev
2028-02-27  7:39           ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-09 11:38             ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-10  4:44               ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-10 15:29                 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2007-07-10 15:40                   ` Balbir Singh

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