Re: Just how large is that faults field?

> #vmstat
> procs    memory      page                       disks   faults      cpu
> r b w    avm    fre  flt  re  pi   po   fr   sr f0 s0   in   sy  cs us 
> sy id
> 0 0 0  47720   7016    2   0   0    0    0    0  0  0 
> 18446744073709550553   18   5  0  1 99

(hmm, someone seems to have inserted two spurious line breaks there.)

> That's what I thought at first.. but there are five values to the
> right of that huge number matching the remaining vmstat fields.

Furthermore, 18446744073709550553 is 0xfffffffffffffbd9.  I find it a
lot more plausible that some counter went negative somehow than that a
bunch of numbers in decimal just happened to concatenate to form that.

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