Does anyone have any thoughts on the following [1] issue with mdb's 
memstat dcmd? For some reason the values are incorrect on machines
with lots (64 GB in this case) of RAM.

Thanks for any insight,
- Ryan

[1]

>Does anyone know if there are any known issues with mdb's "::memstat"
>dcmd on Solaris 9? I am seeing some weird output on a machine with
>64 GB of RAM and kernel revision 118558-02:
>
>$ mdb -k
>Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix ip usba ptm cpc ipc random nfs ]
>> ::memstat
>Page Summary                Pages                MB  %Tot
>------------     ----------------  ----------------  ----
>Kernel                     400425              3128    5%
>Anon                      3785762             29576   47%
>Exec and libs               13060               102    0%
>Page cache                 983088              7680   12%
>Free (cachelist)          2873946             22452   36%
>Free (freelist)  18446744073709550756    17592186044409    0%
>
>Total                     8055421             62932
>> ::quit
>
>I looked through the patch documentation for 113471/118558, and didn't see
>any issues specifically related to this. I am currently using mdb patch
>revision "-04":
>
>$ /usr/ccs/bin/what /bin/mdb
>/bin/mdb:
>         SunOS 5.9 Generic 113471-04 Aug 2003
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>- Ryan
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