Subject: re: systat error (Re: vm.bufmem_hiwater not honored)
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Arto Selonen <arto@selonen.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/17/2004 15:17:26
Hi!

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, matthew green wrote:

>    After running 'systat bufcache -w 1' for about 24 hours, it produced
>    "error reading kmem for maddr at 0xdeadbeef (Bad address)" and gave up.
>    Problem in systat or kernel?
>
> probably neither; kmem utilities always have the chance of using
> stale data.  i guess that happened here...

Ahh. Maybe mention that in the systat(1) BUGS section?
(Possibly even in other similar utilities as well)


Artsi
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