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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: marcs@znep.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject: Re: Patch for larger stats in vmstat -i
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>If it is worthwhile to change, why not make it a few longer than that? 
>Even with your patch, I can get:
>
>interrupt        total      rate
>clk0 irq0    295363845       99
>rtc0 irq8    378098605      127
>fdc0 irq6            1        0
>wdc0 irq14   125614605       42
>wdc1 irq15   148530817       50
>sc0 irq1             1        0
>sio1 irq3        20746        0
>ed0 irq5     205705153       69
>ep0 irq10       131130        0
>Total        1153464903       390

Another billion and you'll get negative counts with a minus sign to screw
up the formatting some more.  Counts should be 64-bit, but the kernel
doesn't support that yet.

Bruce