From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269503AbUHZTtM (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:49:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269518AbUHZTq3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:46:29 -0400 Received: from 18-165-237-24-mvl.nwc.gci.net ([24.237.165.18]:26348 "EHLO nevaeh-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269501AbUHZTp2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:45:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:44:20 -0800 (AKDT) From: Arthur Corliss X-X-Sender: acorliss@bifrost.nevaeh-linux.org To: Jay Lan cc: Tim Schmielau , Andrew Morton , lkml , erikj@dbear.engr.sgi.com, limin@engr.sgi.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= , Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA , Guillaume Thouvenin Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] new CSA patchset for 2.6.8 In-Reply-To: <412E2B6B.80904@engr.sgi.com> Message-ID: References: <412D2E10.8010406@engr.sgi.com> <20040825221842.72dd83a4.akpm@osdl.org> <412E2B6B.80904@engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -1.971 () AWL,BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jay Lan wrote: > The reason for breaking up one CSA patch into four patches was > so that the only CSA (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/csa/) specific > thing is the csa_module. My intention is to improve the system > accounting data collection and make the data available to any > clients that can use the data. The three areas of accounting > data we try to improve are io, mm, and per-process area. > > As Tim said the problem of BSD accounting was that it has been > inactive for a long time. I do not mind incoporating the > three accounting data collection patches i submitted into BSD or > others as long as the data made available to modules that plan > to make use of the data. :) All right, I'm going to shut up now. I had no idea that SGI had gone behind my back and started porting CSA to Linux. :-P Before I shut up, though, as a user of these tools I'd vote for a unified data collection method, as suggested above. There has to be at least five of us who have volunteered at one point or another to help make the GNU utilities conform. That should make everyone happy. --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/ Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/ "Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto