From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 18:09:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC55316A4DF for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:09:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A7E43D53 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:09:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9431746BD4; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:09:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:09:00 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@bsdimp.com In-Reply-To: <200607201729.k6KHT55o001389@lurza.secnetix.de> Message-ID: <20060720190823.M98132@fledge.watson.org> References: <200607201729.k6KHT55o001389@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: vmstat's entries type X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:09:01 -0000 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