Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:13:08 -0500 (EST) From: Brent B.Powers <powers@b2pi.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /proc info Message-ID: <14941.5812.168075.23941@Max.B2Pi.com> In-Reply-To: <E14GMs0-000Oj6-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net> References: <E14GMs0-000Oj6-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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>>>>> "Cliff" == Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> 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.
>>
>>
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