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'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. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
