From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 6 12:40:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252A016A418 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3DC13C455 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:40:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.8]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JU80006136T3X80@l-daemon> for cvs-all@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:40:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JU800C7836M2S20@pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for cvs-all@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:40:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.201.197]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JU800F4Z36LKF20@l-daemon> for cvs-all@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:39:57 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 65886 invoked from network); Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:39:56 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hexahedron.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:39:56 +0000 Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:39:55 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <200801061212.m06CCjON027649@repoman.freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-id: <4780CC1B.8090708@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 References: <200801061212.m06CCjON027649@repoman.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071117) Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/gstat gstat.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:40:06 -0000 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > When the ms/req fields exceed 1 second, drop the fractions to fit more digits. > > This is unfortunately necessary with some flash based devices which can > get hundreds of seconds behind with softupdates enabled. I'm curious, why is this an issue with flash devices? Given their famous ability to perform large numbers of transactions per second, I would have expected flash-based drives to be the least likely to have this problem. Colin Percival