vm_lowmem is prevented every 2**31 ticks
Ryan Stone
rysto32 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 15:10:33 UTC 2015
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> If you're measuring elapsed time, please use getbinuptime() rather than
> the time of day clock (which can be stepped arbitrarily).
>
> Hey wait a sec... if it's currently some_ticks/hz it's counting seconds,
> right? So no need to mess with bintimes, if whole seconds are good
> enough just use the global time_uptime.
>
i thought that there was such a variable, but a quick search didn't turn it
up. Thanks. (And thanks for also catching my potential mistake in not
using uptime -- that would have been embarrassing)
I've put the potential fix up for review here:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3439
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