Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:29:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:29:20 -0400 Received: from 2-136.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.136]:34268 "EHLO 2-136.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:29:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:35:07 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: "Albert D. Cahalan" cc: Jeff Garzik , Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] procps 3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <200210200353.g9K3rEF341645@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1115 Lines: 33 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, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Current spamtrap: october@surriel.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/