Subject: Re: vmstat disk activity
To: None <dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/26/1995 14:48:33
>Am I imagining things?
>vmstat used to be able to show disk activity on the i386
>port, but now it doesn't.  I was under the impression that
[...]
>in fact, the code shows that read_names is a nop for i386,
>which appears to indicate that the support for that was
>removed?

If it ever worked, it was a very long time ago (maybe 0.8?).  It
hasn't worked for quite some time.

Speaking of which...  Will the count of interrupts per second ever be
fixed?  There are/were times when I could really use this information
(i386 port, of course).

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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