linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] add buffer cache information to show_free

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Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:37:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()
>
> When administrator analysis memory shortage reason from OOM log, They
> often need to know rest number of cache like pages.

Maybe:


"
It is often useful to know the statistics for all pages that are handled
like page cache pages when looking at OOM log output.

Therefore show_free_areas() should also display buffer cache statistics.
"
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