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Subject: Re: strange 'vmstat -z' output
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On 6 July 2011 02:46, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> hi there,
>
> i'm seeing the following with 'vmstat -z' on CURRENT, running on amd64:
>
> ITEM =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 SIZE =A0LIMIT =A0 =A0 USED =A0 =
=A0 FREE =A0 =A0 =A0REQ FAIL SLEEP
> 128 Bucket: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A01048, =A0 =A0 =A00, =A0 =A0 150, =A0 =
=A0 =A0 0, =A0 =A01650,12746, =A0 0
>
> ...how can the number of failures be greater than the number of requests?

Here REQ is the total number of successful allocations, not just requests.

--=20
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