Re: bin/58001: systat -w1 vmstat reports "Cannot get buffers;Cannot allocate memory"

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

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From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/58001: systat -w1 vmstat reports "Cannot get buffers;Cannot allocate memory"
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:42:19 -0000 (UTC)

 michael.cheponis%gmail.com@localhost writes:
 
 >This only occurs when the line: dd if=/dev/sd0a of=/dev/null bs=1m
 
 >is running.  I've not tried other possible long-time-running background tasks to see why systat -w1 vmstat is complaining
 
 It tries to fetch information about all allocated buffers (buffer cache)
 and limits this to 1000. If there is data about more buffers, you get the
 misleading message and systat fails.