Subject: Re: vmstat disk activity
To: None <dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/27/1995 09:23:13
Dave Archer blurted:
> 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
> I had gotten something out of sync, so I rebuilt current
> kernel, libs, ld, and vmstat, and it still doesn't work.
> 
> in fact, the code shows that read_names is a nop for i386,
> which appears to indicate that the support for that was
> removed?

Disk stats were broken somewhere back in all the rearrangements and
reintegration work. Or maybe i goes back even longer than that..

anyway, there's good progress being made on a working replacement for
that system.

--
Dan.