linux-kernel - Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

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Message-ID: <6599ad830706211217l65d76d4ehb42f9165bcf45dd@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:17:27 -0700
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Pavel Emelianov" <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Linux Containers" <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

On 6/20/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> Display the current usage and limit in a more user friendly manner. Number
> of pages can be confusing if the page size is different. Some systems
> can choose a page size of 64KB.

I'm not sure that's such a great idea. "Human-friendly"
representations would make programmatic parsing harder.

What's wrong with just showing counts in bytes in the control files?

Paul
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