YAVP (Yet Another Vmstat Patch)

[Ivan Voras]

Hi,

I'm working on something that tends to generate a lot of context
switches and I don't like the way values in "vmstat 1" are printed
practically unbounded, causing wrapping, etc.

Here's a patch against -CURRENT that uses humanize_number() to keep the
formatting of memory and context switches tabular in the common case:

http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/diffs/vmstat.c.patch.txt

The following people might not like it:

* Those who really need to distinguish between 185400 context switches
and 185499 context switches
* Those who have scripts that parse the output
* Those who thought the previous chaotic behaviour is cute :)

Example of new output is:

 procs   memory      page                    disks     faults          cpu
 r b w  avm free   flt  re  pi  po    fr  sr ad4 ad8   in   sy   cs  us
sy id
 3 0 0 112M 3.7G     0   0   0   0     0   0   0   0    2 373K 267K   4
37 59
 2 0 0 112M 3.7G     0   0   0   0     0   0   0   0    0 366K 271K   4
37 59
 3 0 0 112M 3.7G     0   0   0   0     0   0   0   0    0 370K 267K   4
36 59
 4 0 0 112M 3.7G     0   0   0   0     0   0   0   0    0 378K 278K   5
36 60
 3 0 0 112M 3.7G     0   0   0   0     0   0   0   0   69 366K 268K   4
39 58
 2 0 0 112M 3.7G     0   0   0   0     0   0   0   0   65 372K 271K   5
41 54
 4 0 0 112M 3.7G     0   0   0   0     0   0   0   0   71 374K 271K   5
40 55
 2 0 0 112M 3.7G     0   0   0   0     0   0   0   0    6 375K 276K   4
39 57

Any objections to the patch?

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