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From: thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "syncing disk...3 3" <- ?
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 01:10:16 GMT
Organization: FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>Vlad <roubtsov@uiuc.edu> wrote:

>> 	Just curious: what are these numbers that appear after "syncing
>> disk..." or whatever message when one does reboot ?
>The number of outstanding buffers that need to be saved to the disk.

Why are there two numbers (phenomenically increasing with the time the
system was up ???) that sometimes do not match? (Do I have something
broken?)
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Axel Thimm <thimm@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de>
Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universitaet Berlin