On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/30 Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:24 PM, David Bustos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Quoth Dennis Clarke on Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 09:42:30PM +0000: >>>> I know that there is a bugid open regarding this weird output : >>>> >>>> -bash-3.2# /bin/echo "::memstat" | mdb -k >>> ... >>>> what would the status of that puppy be ? >>> >>> 6174625 (::memstat should not show ridiculous amounts of free memory) >>> has been accepted, but does not have an engineer assigned to it. >> >> well, thank you for looking that up for me. >> >> I think that the OpenSolaris project is *not* an open kernel type >> project and thus no external person can submit a code patch that would >> address that issue. It looks to me to be something trivial to fix but >> a really low priority. > > Dennis, I have code that has been integrated into the OpenSolaris > kernel. So, that isn't true.
I stand corrected .. again. It has been one of those days >> I'm guessing here, wild guess in fact, that the final line item of >> data there should be derived from simply subtracting the pages >> allocated in other places from the physicla pages found in the >> machine. Some sort of a error is taking place with underflow or >> overflow which is borking up the output. >> >> Then again it could even be printf format related .. tough to say >> without digging into the code. > > Patches are welcome and accepted. If someone would like to figure out > a possible fix, and request a sponsor, I'm certain they could > eventually get the change integrated. in that case .. I'll look into it, merely with a curious eye, later today. If I find something blatant ( unlikely ) then I'll jump into it. Dennis _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
