From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 17 17:52:27 2005 Return-Path: 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 3A94716A4CE for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:52:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFB643D3F for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:52:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 6260 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2005 17:52:26 -0000 Received: from gate.funkthat.com (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Apr 2005 17:52:26 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (lghcxi@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])j3HHqPD2052392; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j3HHqPU2052391; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:52:25 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20050417175225.GC16099@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ivan Voras , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@freebsd.org References: <42616975.9060303@centtech.com> <3703.1113680811@critter.freebsd.dk> <4261996A.2030204@fer.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4261996A.2030204@fer.hr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gstat shows > 100% busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:52:27 -0000 Ivan Voras wrote this message on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:02 +0200: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >The reason gstat shows >100% busy is that there are some outstanding > >requests. (the 2 in the left hand column). > > > >I tried to make the statistics collection as cheap as possible, and > >as a side effect some of the columns can be somewhat misleading. > > Could it be (for reasons of prettyfication) clipped to [0-100] range? > Something like in the attached? It could, but IMO, leaving them unclipped will continue to show that the numbers are complete apporimations and not to be depended upon.. If they were to always show 0-100%, people might start putting more meaning into them than is really there (as phk enumerated in a previous message)... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."