Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:41:57 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NFS attribute cache & profiling sysctl variables Message-ID: <5032.955892517@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:30:11 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004161426460.36690-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004161426460.36690-100000@mx.webgiro.com>, Andrzej B ialecki writes: >On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > >> >> I have two unrelated questions I can not figure out myself: > >> (2) I am trying to display kernel profiling sysctl variables with sysctl >> -a or sysctl -A without success. They are defined in subr_prof.c. Why >> sysctl command can not display them? I can use kgmon. > >Many sysctls that return non-ascii or non-numeric values don't have any >special handlers in sysctl(8), so they are silently omitted from the >listing. However, you should see them with -A... You can also write a >trivial 10 line program to try and retrieve the values by calling >sysctlbyname (or sysctl if you know the OIDs). ... Or use sysctl -b mumble.frotz | hexdump -C -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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