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Date:      Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:28:49 +0400
From:      Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        Jason Hellenthal <jhell@dataix.net>
Cc:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange 'vmstat -z' output
Message-ID:  <CAE-mSO%2BNsnS4cW3UOUqNHy9KQ0r8MoK%2BnDkQyeWGp2CT=8XoZA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110706010819.GB58614@DataIX.net>
References:  <20110705224609.GA93031@freebsd.org> <CAE-mSO%2BheEhkVW_-hafSh5_4qOo_dYNUTjrrJt13=CnW4-%2B4wg@mail.gmail.com> <20110706010819.GB58614@DataIX.net>

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On 6 July 2011 05:08, Jason Hellenthal <jhell@dataix.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 04:40:54AM +0400, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
>> 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 reques=
ts?
>>
>> Here REQ is the total number of successful allocations, not just request=
s.
>>
>
> I think he is refering to "FAIL" column not REQ.
>

Yes. And FAIL is not a subset of REQ. They are success / failure counters.
That's why FAIL can be less/greater then REQ.

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wbr,
pluknet



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