From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 30 16:43:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913F1151E9 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:43:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id BAA27467; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:41:55 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id BAA22432; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:53:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19991231015318.40151@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:53:18 +0100 From: Phil Regnauld To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Phil Regnauld , Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uptime ! (507 days and going) References: <19991224172048.17894@ns.int.ftf.net> <199912310008.TAA91293@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199912310008.TAA91293@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from Crist J. Clark on Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:08:47PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Crist J. Clark writes: > interrupt total rate > clk0 irq0 1296951033 99 > rtc0 irq8 1660151845 128 > fdc0 irq6 60370 0 > wdc0 irq14 944831167 72 > > Is it potentially harmful for these to go negative or roll over (not > in vmstat(1) output, but the kernel registers it reads)? Maybe They're just counters. Makes statistics more difficult, shouldn't be a problem otherwise... I don't know how this is handled in 3.x and -CURRENT. > vmstat(1) should be using 'unsigned long's rather than 'long's? -- [ In 1 days, 0 hours and 7 minutes, this line might fail Y2K compliance ] y2k -- an occasion to remember how far we haven't come in the last 2000 years. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message