Subject: Re: vmmeter questions...
To: None <bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu>
From: Chuck Cranor <chuck@dworkin.wustl.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/23/1997 23:11:54
>  1.  In a struct vmmeter, what is the difference between
>    v_pgpgin and v_pageins?  

v_pageins is the number of times we _ask_ for a page from
a pager.

v_pgpgin is the number of times we successfully get a page.
[i.e. the number of pages we actually do get the page we
asked for]



i don't know the answer to your sysctl question.   i'd guess
it is just historic.   in the VM code i have been playing with
i've added a sysctl to get all VM stats so that my X program
would not have to be setgid kmem to function.

chuck