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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:19:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
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Subject: Re: "netstat -m" and sendfile(2) statistics in STABLE
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I read objections in cvs-all@ about netstat's output after MFC
> of sendfile(2) statistics.
>
> How about "netstat -ms" ?
>
> Right now this switch combination is treated as simple "-m" in both -STABLE
> and -CURRENT.
>
>
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/

I would prefer that sfbufs statistics either be kept in netstat -m, OR 
added to an entirely different program (perhaps vmstat).  Making yet 
another netstat flag just because we're scared of confusing users is a 
noble compromise, but will in the end just make things more confusing.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack