Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:00:24 +0100 From: Tamas Szakaly <sghctoma@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking up a sysctl oid Message-ID: <20200116150024.4saavcf4bqejl3fe@telaranrhiod> In-Reply-To: <20200116145348.kxrk7n7vjhf3q2zg@callisto.dbalan.in> References: <20200116145348.kxrk7n7vjhf3q2zg@callisto.dbalan.in>
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> 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 "sysctl -d" gives you the description for the oid: $ sysctl -d dev.cpu.1.cx_usage dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: percent usage for each Cx state Cheers, Toma
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