I've been evaluating a dual processor G5, working it pretty hard for

several weeks (2 x ~100% CPU jobs running all the time.) I just

noticed the following virtual memory statistics:

dberry% vm_stat

Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)

Pages free: 4799.

Pages active: 140469.

Pages inactive: 90789.

Pages wired down: 26087.

"Translation faults": -1283718751.

Pages copy-on-write: 599196.

Pages zero filled: -1293420378.

Pages reactivated: 1004467.

Pageins: 29024.

Pageouts: 2675.

Object cache: 325107 hits of 618313 lookups (52% hit rate)

No big deal here; the statistics above are captured to an "integer_t," rather than a "natural_t," and the code that updates the statistics makes no effort to make sure the results do not exceed INT_MAX. So yes, it's just a 32-bit signed int that's "rolling over" into negative values. William Kucharski kucharsk@mac.com _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.