Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:04:20 -0500 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Suspect results from iostat--FBSD bug? Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3E0CB27B@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <877hnigzmb.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3E0CB171@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <877hnigzmb.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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>This looks like a bug in iostat. 4294967295 =3D=3D 2 * 32 - -1 > >It seems that some call returns (unsigned long)-1, e.g. to indicate a fail= ing system/library call but iostat still prints the result: > >Which _precise_ version of FreeBSD are you using? Well, that's a good question. The particular version I am running right now= is basically FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT (well, from a free weeks ago anyway) with= lots of local kernel mods (to support drive pull primarily). I guess we co= uld very well be hitting a bug in this 9.0 code since it hasn't officially = been stamped as released...
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