From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 19 20:34:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EACA1065693 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:34:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E078FC1D for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7073C46B2D; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:34:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D58F98A01B; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:34:34 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:02:17 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200910150747.55101.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910191602.17907.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:34:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: grarpamp Subject: Re: vmstat -m/-z field parsing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:34:36 -0000 On Thursday 15 October 2009 3:47:59 pm grarpamp wrote: > Sure, it's a workaround for vmstat -z, but not easy for vmstat -m > which has no handy colons/commas to key from. You could key off the number of fields (e.g. using $NF) and assume the first N fields are the name. :) > Shouldn't stats be easy to parse in order to be useful to many > rather than a test of a few users script fu ? :) They should also be easily readable for humans, and I do find the spaces more readable than the underscores FWIW. > Are there detailed docs on what all the fields mean in the various > tools... vmstat -z/-m, systat -vm, netstat -m, top, ps. Most docs > seem to just list the field names a command line switch will display, > instead what sense to make of them. Not really. :-/ -- John Baldwin