In message <20050417175225.GC16099_at_funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes: >Ivan Voras wrote this message on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:02 +0200: >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> >The reason gstat shows >100% busy is that there are some outstanding >> >requests. (the 2 in the left hand column). >> > >> >I tried to make the statistics collection as cheap as possible, and >> >as a side effect some of the columns can be somewhat misleading. >> >> Could it be (for reasons of prettyfication) clipped to [0-100] range? >> Something like in the attached? > >It could, but IMO, leaving them unclipped will continue to show that >the numbers are complete apporimations and not to be depended upon.. >If they were to always show 0-100%, people might start putting more >meaning into them than is really there (as phk enumerated in a previous >message)... Right, that's why they are not clipped today. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sun Apr 17 2005 - 16:29:10 UTC
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