From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 0:53:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2542C37B479; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 00:53:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p04-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.133]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id RAA17918; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:53:01 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A051B10.3E43D0C9@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 17:32:16 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Mike Smith , Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user-space resource information... References: <3248.973365649@critter> <200011041952.eA4JqZF11774@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20001104221812.A14843@panzer.kdm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > I think vmstat(8) might be a better fit than iostat. vmstat already > displays kernel memory usage (-m), interrupt usage (-i), paging stats (-s), > and zone allocator stats (-z). That's vmstat's problem, not a feature. :-) That kind of thinking is what led to Linux /proc. > Since vmstat already has "kitchen sink" type functionality (i.e. a wide > variety of uses), I think it would probably work better to put this new > functionality there. If it's not vm-related, it shouldn't be listed by vmstat. > iostat is also designed primarily for continuous output use -- displaying a > line of stats every N seconds. vmstat is also designed for that in its That's the objection I raised to Mike. :-) I suggested systat, though that has it's problems too. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@world.wide.bsdconspiracy.net He has been convicted of criminal possession of a clue with intent to distribute. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message