From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 20:24:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F1074BE; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 20:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from systemdatarecorder.org (mail.systemdatarecorder.org [54.246.96.61]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "localhost", Issuer "localhost" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDFAD26F4; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 20:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nereid (84-253-211-213.bb.dnainternet.fi [84.253.211.213]) (authenticated bits=0) by systemdatarecorder.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2ubuntu2.1) with ESMTP id s78KMQLD023702 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 8 Aug 2014 20:22:27 GMT Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 23:24:43 +0300 From: Stefan Parvu To: John-Mark Gurney Subject: Re: disk and NIC io statistics via sysctl Message-Id: <20140808232443.62f36b6a36816d9e9f417a9a@systemdatarecorder.org> In-Reply-To: <20140808200332.GF88623@funkthat.com> References: <20140808184021.537feca9b15e3a261ea27fa7@systemdatarecorder.org> <1407515358.56408.374.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20140808211814.e14706bd0949b7a1a7827785@systemdatarecorder.org> <20140808200332.GF88623@funkthat.com> Organization: systemdatarecorder.org X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ian Lepore X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:24:53 -0000 > If you write some, I will clean it up and commit it... :) I will do that after im done with all 5 data recorders and my findings. Would be very nice to have even better documentation. Linux is a mess. FreeBSD is more organized and structured. > These should be described in their own page.. Putting detailed > information like this is sysctl(3) is wrong... Creating a new page > and cross-ref'ing them is best... Most of the sysctl(3) entries are > ones that were assigned numbers, now most sysctl's are OID_AUTO, and > we should be using names instead... I don't see any names used in > sysctl(3)... ok, a new page describing all these things would be super. I will take care of that. -- Stefan Parvu