From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 22 1:38:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.174.154.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82EF437B416 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:38:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAM9cRr02461; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:38:27 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:38:27 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring? In-Reply-To: <15356.43487.331466.734902@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <20011122103611.V451-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: MM>In looking over the various options for monitoring the health of the MM>hardware, I notice that it's pretty much a mess. All the software in MM>question runs privileged and grovels through memory in some way. MM> MM>Linux uses a device driver that's a directory full of files holding MM>sensor information. That doesn't seem to be the right direction for MM>FBSD, though. An option that enabled a set of sysctls to collect the MM>information seemed to be more approrpiate. MM> MM>Comments? Suggestions? Brickbats? What's bad about using files? Just to be different? Isn't it easier to select, poll, kqueue, what ever on files than on sysctls? harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message