Re: procfs and buffer calculation

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <CACQjD2E1Cz6=bTfXn0FT9F8V7iPXoxdHdAWMM_Q6yVE74duQ8Q%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Santhosh Raju  <fox%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I was recently working on making sysutils/py-psutil to be independent
>of procfs being mounted, as part of a question raised in the PR[1], I
>came across the buffers count implementation in procfs
>- https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_linux.c#L203
>
>And it looks like the value passed in should be filepg and not freepg
>
>Line 195, shows filepg is what is being passed into buffers when
>printing the stats out horizontally.
>
>Here is an example output
>
>$ cat /proc/meminfo
>        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers: cached:
>Mem:  8301424640 8194068480 107356160        0 1378316288 7050772480
>Swap: 4294926336 3880894464 414031872
>MemTotal:   8106860 kB
>MemFree:     104840 kB
>MemShared:        0 kB
>Buffers:     104840 kB
>Cached:     6885520 kB
>SwapTotal:  4194264 kB
>SwapFree:    404328 kB
>
>Happy to make the change and do the commit, if there are no objections to it.
>
>Reference
>1. https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/pull/2805#discussion_r3048247572

Sure, go for it.

christos