Subject: Re: vmstat, iostat etc no longer work?
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/14/1996 16:25:40
BTW, I find the notion of options that are not optional disturbing.

If an option is not optional on a given port, it should be on by
default in that port and the user's config files shouldn't have
to have the thing at all. "Option" should mean "optional".

.pm

Chris G Demetriou writes:
> >BTW, what port(s) still uses the old non-MACHINE_NONCONTIG VM model?  I real
ly
> >would like to see this dropped.
> 
> Doing a grep (in particular cd /sys/arch ; grep MACHINE_NONCONTIG
> */{include,conf}/* | sed -e 's:/.*::' | sort -u), as far as i can tell:
> 
> 	amiga
> 	arm32
> 	atari
> 	i386
> 	mac68k
> 	powerpc
> 	sparc
> 	sun3
> 	x68k
> 
> use it, so:
> 
> 	alpha
> 	hp300
> 	mvme68k
> 	pc532
> 	pica
> 	pmax
> 	vax
> 
> do not.
> 
> Doesn't look like MACHINE_NONCONTIG's "optionalness" is going away any
> time soon...
> 
> 
> cgd