Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:09:00 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /proc info Message-ID: <E14GMs0-000Oj6-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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FreeBSD is neat, but I too miss Linux's /proc .. Cliff > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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