Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:09:00 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@bsdimp.com Subject: Re: vmstat's entries type Message-ID: <20060720190823.M98132@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200607201729.k6KHT55o001389@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200607201729.k6KHT55o001389@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > and easily triples the amount of storage for each of them... > > True, storage is tripled. But how many counters are we talking about here? > I guess rather a few, not thousands of them, right? > > > It is ugly :-( > > Yes, I certainly agree, it's ugly. But having wrong output from "vmstat -s" > and other tools is ugly, too -- and it is noticed by a lot more people. This problem is not limited to vmstat -- the network stack uses 32-bit counters in a lot of places where 32-bits has become very small. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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