> memstat isn't showing precomputed statistics (e.g. > equivalent of a kstat > we have stashed somewhere): the implementation of > that dcmd is quite literally > to iterate over every page_t in the system (1GB / 4k > = 262144 minus a few
Right, thanks. This explains the behaviour. > As part of the VM system reworking that is going on, > it might be useful to > think about having the kernel keep these things all > the time and then we > could modify the dcmd to simply read the cached > values. Rich McDougall > and George Cameron would be the people to talk to > about that. I will drop them an email about this. thanks, Stefan
