Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 20:49:57 +0400 From: Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: messed up swap reporting Message-ID: <199906061649.UAA01654@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Jun 1999 01:29:53 MDT." <199906060729.BAA14233@panzer.plutotech.com>
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"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
> {subway:/usr/home/ken:37:0} pstat -s
> Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
> /dev/(null) -248 -358392 358144 144513% Interleaved
This phenomenon should be explained in the attached message:
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To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kvm_getswapinfo is broken
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 09:08:11 +0400."
<19990526090810.A23737@nagual.pp.ru>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 02:09:14 +0400
From: Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote:
> Just check 'swapinfo' in recent -current, it shows "/dev/(null)" as swap
> device, it means that devinfo() call in kvm_getswapinfo() returns NULL,
> i.e. called with wrong argument which is swinfo.sw_dev
This is a known problem. It is because dev_t in kernel and dev_t and
userland are now different things. This is worse on the alpha, where
they also have different sizes. So, on the alpha, the numbers are broken
too, not just device names.
Supposedly, it will be fixed by a junior kernel hacker.
Dima
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