The following reply was made to PR bin/29981; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/29981: vmstat(1) shows wrong system calls per interval
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:20:44 +0200 (CEST)

 Solaris documents the invocation of vmstat w/o parameters as printing the 
 values since booting. Actually I've always known the first line of data 
 from vmstat (and also iostat) to be mostly useless.
 
 
   - Hubert
 
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