Bug 174259

Summary:	counts in pgpgin and pgpgout reported by vmstat
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alfred Ganz <alfred-ganz+bug>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	kzak, pfrields, wtogami
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Description Alfred Ganz 2005-11-26 19:54:59 UTC

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Description of problem:
Sorry to bother you again, but here is another procps issue.
vmstat -s returns both pagein/out and pageswapin/out counts, but it
looks to me like the pgpgin/out counts are in kBytes, while the
pswpin/out counts are real pages, this seems to be rather misleading.

I presume vmstat uses /proc/vmstat to get its information, and the
above seems to be true for /proc/vmstat as well.

pgpgin are counted by submit_bio() in drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c, they
are in sectors, vmstat_start() in mm/page_alloc.c then divides them 
by 2.

swap_readpage/writepage() in mm/page_io.c on the other hand seem to 
count pages.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.vmstat -s
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Karel Zak 2006-02-02 15:17:00 UTC

Please, can someone from kernel team check it? The command "vmstat -s" is almost
same like "cat /proc/vmstat" and I think that pgpgin/out in kB seems really strange.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2006-02-04 03:58:57 UTC

With the release of Fedora Core 5 test2, FC3 has now reached end-of-life.
The fedora-legacy team provide security updates for older releases, but not
general bug fixes due to limited resources.

If you can reproduce this bug with Fedora Core 4, please feel free to reopen
this bug.