Subject: filesystem caching
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.CS.UNLV.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 09/20/1996 16:49:10
The other day I was looking for a performance measure to indicate how
well our fileservers were doing with regards to caching filesystem
data. In the course of doing this I found that the man page for the
vmstat subpart of the systat doesn't seem to match very well with what
systat is actually doing these days. Specifically the information on
the right side of the screen (the vm stat stuff). Looking at the
vmmeter stuff it isn't clear what value (if any) would correspond to
this statistic (disk buffers reclaimed from the free list). Is such a
statistic kept by the kernel anymore? Or does it no longer make any
sense in the face of the VM system changes? (The last time i looked
seriously at the VM stuff was under 4.3).
--Greg