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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:07:06 -0400
From: Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>
To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: strange 'vmstat -z' output
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:46:09PM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
>=20
> i'm seeing the following with 'vmstat -z' on CURRENT, running on amd64:
>=20
> ITEM                   SIZE  LIMIT     USED     FREE      REQ FAIL SLEEP
> 128 Bucket:            1048,      0,     150,       0,    1650,12746,   0
>=20
> ...how can the number of failures be greater than the number of requests?
>=20

Not to get off track here. Was that sleep patch applied to -CURRENT ?
i.e. imported for general usage ? or did you just apply it locally ?

If you applied that locally does the same thing happen without it ?