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Revision: 1.4
Committed: Sun May 2 09:35:15 2004 UTC (20 years ago) by tdb
Content type: text/xml
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: HEAD
Changes since 1.3: +2 -2 lines
State: FILE REMOVED
Log Message:
Do a repo copy of the documentation to their new names, then delete the old
ones. They still need their content updating though. We also need docs for
the new process stats stuff, the error reporting code, and I think the FS
stats which seem to be missing.

File Contents

# Content
1 <?xml version="1.0"?>
2
3 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
4 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
5
6 <refentry id="get_page_stats">
7
8 <refentryinfo>
9 <date>$Date: 2004/03/11 17:35:24 $</date>
10 <releaseinfo>$Id: get_page_stats.xml,v 1.3 2004/03/11 17:35:24 tdb Exp $</releaseinfo>
11 </refentryinfo>
12
13 <refmeta>
14 <refentrytitle>get_page_stats</refentrytitle>
15 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
16 <refmiscinfo>i-scream</refmiscinfo>
17 </refmeta>
18
19 <refnamediv>
20 <refname>get_page_stats</refname>
21 <refname>get_page_stats_diff</refname>
22 <refpurpose>get paging statistics</refpurpose>
23 </refnamediv>
24
25 <refsynopsisdiv>
26 <funcsynopsis>
27 <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;statgrab.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
28 <funcprototype>
29 <funcdef>page_stat_t *<function>get_page_stats</function></funcdef>
30 <void/>
31 </funcprototype>
32 <funcprototype>
33 <funcdef>page_stat_t *<function>get_page_stats_diff</function></funcdef>
34 <void/>
35 </funcprototype>
36 </funcsynopsis>
37 </refsynopsisdiv>
38
39 <refsect1>
40 <title>Description</title>
41 <para>
42 <function>get_page_stats</function> and
43 <function>get_page_stats_diff</function> both return a pointer to
44 a static buffer of type <structname>page_stat_t</structname>.
45 </para>
46 <para>
47 <function>get_page_stats</function> will return the number of
48 pages the system has paged in and out since bootup.
49 <function>get_page_stats_diff</function> will return the
50 difference since last time it was called. If it has not been
51 called before, it will return
52 <function>get_page_stats</function>.
53 </para>
54 </refsect1>
55
56 <refsect1>
57 <title>Return Values</title>
58
59 <programlisting>
60 typedef struct{
61 long long pages_pagein;
62 long long pages_pageout;
63 time_t systime;
64 }page_stat_t;
65 </programlisting>
66
67 <variablelist>
68 <varlistentry>
69 <term>
70 <structfield>pages_pagein</structfield>
71 </term>
72 <listitem>
73 <para>
74 The number of pages swapped into memory.
75 </para>
76 </listitem>
77 </varlistentry>
78 <varlistentry>
79 <term>
80 <structfield>pages_pageout</structfield>
81 </term>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>
84 The number of pages swapped out of memory (to swap).
85 </para>
86 </listitem>
87 </varlistentry>
88 <varlistentry>
89 <term>
90 <structfield>systime</structfield>
91 </term>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>
94 The time period over which <parameter>pages_pagein</parameter>
95 and <parameter>pages_pageout</parameter> were transferred.
96 </para>
97 </listitem>
98 </varlistentry>
99 </variablelist>
100 </refsect1>
101
102 <refsect1>
103 <title>Bugs</title>
104 <para>
105 Solaris doesn't seem to report accurately. It reports the number
106 of pages swapped into memory, not necessarily from swap. This
107 feature isn't deemed entirely reliable.
108 </para>
109 </refsect1>
110
111 <refsect1>
112 <title>See Also</title>
113
114 <simplelist type="inline">
115 <member>
116 <citerefentry>
117 <refentrytitle>statgrab</refentrytitle>
118 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
119 </citerefentry>
120 </member>
121 </simplelist>
122 </refsect1>
123
124 <refsect1>
125 <title>Website</title>
126
127 <simplelist type="vert">
128 <member>
129 <ulink url="http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/">
130 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
131 </ulink>
132 </member>
133 </simplelist>
134 </refsect1>
135
136 </refentry>