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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/systat vmstat.c 
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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 21:38:43 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
>   Log:
>   Wow, make the vmstat display actually usable!  This is a cosmetic
>   fix, but low-impact and worth the comeasurate risk.  I [jkh] can't even
>   test it in -current since systat's vmstat display is completely broken
>   there at the moment, printing out: "The alternate system clock has died!"

Show this to Bruce..  According to him, this cannot happen.  The 
"alternate system clock" is the rtc (irq 8) and it has stopped sending the 
128Hz statistics and/or 1024Hz profiling clock.  It's not just vmstat that 
is affected, check 'ps' and 'top'..  you'll also find that anything cpu 
intensive through time(1) gets all it's time credited to "system" rather 
than part "user" and part "system".

Cheers,
-Peter