m...@bruningsystems.com wrote: > Hi Jim, > Jim Mauro wrote: >> >> mdb's memstat is cool in how it summarizes things, but it takes a very >> long time to run on large systems. memstat is walking page lists, so >> it should be quite accurate. >> If you can live with the run time of ::memstat, it's currently your >> best bet for memory accounting. >> > I have implemented a version of ::memstat that runs about 3 times > faster on my > 2GB laptop, and gives the almost exactly the results as the original > memstat. Here is what I do... > Instead of using the page walker which basically walks hash chains, I > read in > the pages off of the memseg list, and then just go through them. So, > does this > sound reasonable? The code for the modified memstat routine is attached. > See the README.memstat file for instructions on building and using.
Wow! Thanks for posting this Max!! benr. _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
