Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:35:07 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] procps 3.0.4 |
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > Can you be more specific? What bugs do you see?
> There isn't error checking in the five_cpu_numbers function > to detect bad data. Not that bad data should ever happen; there > is a bug in the WOLK kernel.
Guess why the iowait stats are initialised to 0 ? ;)
We know that user, system, nice and idle are present in every kernel and we bail out with an error if we get less than 4 values for the CPU stats.
> I could make vmstat way faster if the kernel would provide the > number of tasks that are running, swapped out, blocked, etc.
I sent in a patch for that. I'll resend when Linus returns from holidays.
cheers,
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