From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 16 14:54:05 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A4AE1EAB8D for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:54:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@dbalan.in) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47z6f43TwBz473H for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:54:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@dbalan.in) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DB721F8E for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:54:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:54:02 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dbalan.in; h= date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= fm1; bh=S9PNwTCjlOP27+zSb9X9m/SnvoQuGNOSI52g1lWXr1A=; b=RPq5pyim pTWHlNkedL5+6j2xQ/7CRJqjGs0u0soENAw3rj5RmGNW+KLNEzpLeP42x3plDVAQ tv0V01Wy0uOvospsrxfohzBPSxt5MgdVIzaDSBPPOb56CnQ/EBMdQB95ruU9h6eD P4SO5LnpGxEhWrLE/yPsCfCroy6WiSZQDfHNyQYS2fly3FAI+HJ4xfyLapJYAiif OnOJpiThe6xKcj+qk9u0OOydyULT8Lweg8T9963+OcKVlw/kfVZCx6yg3YerrPlb WP4Q0G7CGcIJuMwCdEZG1Pbh4PD/LMFWxuqKrL5JpuEhTpiV8KL0YfLwhVcvZ8+4 vpbQB9mSnzwwMA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=S9PNwTCjlOP27+zSb9X9m/SnvoQuG NOSI52g1lWXr1A=; b=UluzX4o/4WjZO2xeD3pDS6r1A9yyAmwhkBZdaO3xuNiwS zvSRvlz7jchWb7idf9iABIE4eRjeTY4bEYDjf1bo+nhMH7NFrK97afpiNNHnLpAB zD1VtmpsPIKfQRJ9V6dnP2etgbEo2jwmbzOWiEx1RRheByLCuLjSBdppfULDR47u /Y0k0NAMiN6/nmRG/STLurQuON6+DOCL+x64PLhiLsritp3p5cfP374QtkHxMgP2 TEoWe17rlcSU77WKtu9S6/hj3sdltXUu1ZYQQazDDcjCXXK21vNr0lsIvvEdsiUK OjucLpjESqI9ZHnWDqMYoLWtyR6kcnH61QeCDRaDQ== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedugedrtdehgdeikecutefuodetggdotefrodftvf curfhrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpqfgfvfdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfghnecu uegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhepfffhvffukfggtggufgesthdtredttd ervdenucfhrhhomhepffhhrghnrghnjhgrhicuuegrlhgrnhcuoehmrghilhesuggsrghl rghnrdhinheqnecukfhppedufeejrdeljedrudehtddrudejgeenucfrrghrrghmpehmrg hilhhfrhhomhepmhgrihhlsegusggrlhgrnhdrihhnnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgep td X-ME-Proxy: Received: from localhost (unknown [137.97.150.174]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 968B830607D0 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:54:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:23:48 +0530 From: Dhananjay Balan To: freebsd-questions Subject: Looking up a sysctl oid Message-ID: <20200116145348.kxrk7n7vjhf3q2zg@callisto.dbalan.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47z6f43TwBz473H X-Spamd-Bar: ------ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=dbalan.in header.s=fm1 header.b=RPq5pyim; dkim=pass header.d=messagingengine.com header.s=fm1 header.b=UluzX4o/; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of mail@dbalan.in designates 66.111.4.27 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mail@dbalan.in X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.09 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[dbalan.in:s=fm1,messagingengine.com:s=fm1]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:66.111.4.27]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dbalan.in]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; IP_SCORE(-3.49)[ip: (-9.84), ipnet: 66.111.4.0/24(-4.89), asn: 11403(-2.68), country: US(-0.05)]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[dbalan.in:+,messagingengine.com:+]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[27.4.111.66.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.1]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11403, ipnet:66.111.4.0/24, country:US]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[174.150.97.137.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.11] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:54:05 -0000 What is the recomended way to understand what a sysctl oid represents? for eg. How can I find what following oid represents? dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 18.07% 12.15% 69.76% last 1052us so far I've found info about a subset of OIDs in manuals of sysctl(3) and sysctl(8), also in src/sysctl.h, but no method to lookup documentaion particular for an oid. Thanks, dbalan