Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:25:58 +0000 From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> To: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange 'vmstat -z' output Message-ID: <20110706082558.GA57532@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAE-mSO%2BheEhkVW_-hafSh5_4qOo_dYNUTjrrJt13=CnW4-%2B4wg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110705224609.GA93031@freebsd.org> <CAE-mSO%2BheEhkVW_-hafSh5_4qOo_dYNUTjrrJt13=CnW4-%2B4wg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed Jul 6 11, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: > On 6 July 2011 02:46, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote: > > hi there, > > > > i'm seeing the following with 'vmstat -z' on CURRENT, running on amd64: > > > > ITEM SIZE LIMIT USED FREE REQ FAIL SLEEP > > 128 Bucket: 1048, 0, 150, 0, 1650,12746, 0 > > > > ...how can the number of failures be greater than the number of requests? > > Here REQ is the total number of successful allocations, not just requests. who in the right mind would use the keyword REQ for describing successfull allocations? i think if this is really the case, it should be changed to SUCC and, if possible, REQ, describing the total number of requested allocations, should be added. just my 0.02$. thanks for clearing thinks up for me. unfortunately the vmstat(8) man page doesn't come with any description for the -z output. it would be nice to have sections for every vmstat mode, like in the procstat(1) man page. cheers. alex > > -- > wbr, > pluknet
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