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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] vmscan: don't export nr_saved_scan in
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On Tue, 5 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > /proc/zoneinfo is unsalvageable :( Shifting future work over to
> > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/meminfo and deprecating /proc/zoneinfo
> > sounds good to me.
>
> If only one could find things put in sysfs :-)

Write a "zoneinfo" command line tool to show this information? If we
cannot output large texts via /proc or /sys then we need small tools for
all sorts of statistics.