From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 15:55:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A14437B401 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop017.verizon.net (pop017pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A3043FEC for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:55:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by pop017.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030705225545.TDPE27254.pop017.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:55:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3F07576F.4030105@mac.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 18:55:43 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200307051728.24681.me@farid-hajji.de> <44brw8g26e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <200307060029.00866.me@farid-hajji.de> In-Reply-To: <200307060029.00866.me@farid-hajji.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop017.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:55:44 -0500 Subject: Re: Weird vmstat -s stats X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 22:55:46 -0000 Farid Hajji wrote: [ ... ] > Shouldn't such counters be at least 64 bit wide? You betcha. :-) The problem is that a 32-bit CPU, like the Intel x86 family, can't increment a 64-bit counter atomicly. -- -Chuck