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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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