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Date:      Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:29:02 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject:   Re: gstat shows > 100% busy 
Message-ID:  <2393.1113762542@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:52:25 PDT." <20050417175225.GC16099@funkthat.com> 

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In message <20050417175225.GC16099@funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:
>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)...

Right, that's why they are not clipped today.

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