Re: .Help with measuring working-set

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:21:00PM -0800, Suresh Duddi wrote:

> > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/footprint/footprint-guide.html
> >
> > One thing we are struggling with is measurement of working set of app
> > during a time interval.

> > Any pointers ? Are the metrics the best ones to measure and optimize ?
>
> I guess you would prefer to know which pages are mapped at a given
> point. This would require some custom patching to add a trace facility
> for that. Shouldn't be that hard to implement, but I don't know of a
> ready patch.

I think Mike Shaver (you know him) has made a kernel patch
to measure exacty this, also for Mozilla development.

You should be able to just use his patch, if he still has
it.

regards,

Rik
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