svn commit: r277570 - head/usr.bin/vmstat

Davide Italiano davide at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 23 21:18:06 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Will Andrews <will at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:23:57AM -0800, Davide Italiano wrote:
>> What's the rationale behind this change?
>
> The rationale was to match the clock used to the name (and implied intent)
> of the variables used to store/manipulate the data.
>
> It's possible that 'uptime' is entirely the wrong term in vmstat, in which
> case the naming used elsewhere in vmstat needs to be changed too.
>
> --
> wca

I don't think this is a reason strong enough, we should rather go the
other way around as already suggested.
I would like to see this reverted.

Thanks,

-- 
Davide

"There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more
or less solved" -- Henri Poincare


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