From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 18:21:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lolita.speakeasy.net (lolita.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3067337B402 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:21:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22770 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2001 02:05:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gonzo.speakeasy.net) (192.168.0.5) by 192.168.0.13 with SMTP; 11 Jan 2001 02:05:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 4836 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2001 02:13:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Max.B2Pi.com) (216.254.64.187) by gonzo.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 11 Jan 2001 02:13:10 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14941.5812.168075.23941@Max.B2Pi.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:13:08 -0500 (EST) From: Brent B.Powers To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /proc info In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.2 (beta34) "Molpe" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Cliff" == Cliff Sarginson writes: Cliff> FreeBSD is neat, but I too miss Linux's /proc .. Cliff If you've linux_base installed, you can take a look at /compat/linux/proc I've got it symlinked to /linproc >> blaz@satx.rr.com (blaz) writes: >> >> > greetings, > > I am making the transition into FreeBSD, and >> it has been very enjoyable > so far. Information that I use to >> find useful in slackware was the > /proc/cpuinfo, > pci, >> meminfo, etc.. when i stray into /proc on FreeBSD it seems to >> be > nothing > but numbers. Is there any information that is >> equal to what slackware > spewed > out? >> >> That information is generally available in other places on >> FreeBSD. sysctl variables, vmstat(8), pciconf(8), top(1), and >> lots of other places. FreeBSD is also more aggressive in >> trying to keep all of its memory in use, so this kind of >> information for memory usage is much harder to interpret for >> the naive user. >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with >> "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Cliff> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with Cliff> "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message