cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/gstat gstat.c

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Sun Jan 6 05:39:58 PST 2008


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>   When the ms/req fields exceed 1 second, drop the fractions to fit more digits.
>   
>   This is unfortunately necessary with some flash based devices which can
>   get hundreds of seconds behind with softupdates enabled.

I'm curious, why is this an issue with flash devices?  Given their famous
ability to perform large numbers of transactions per second, I would have
expected flash-based drives to be the least likely to have this problem.

Colin Percival


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