From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 21:46:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B5F106566B for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:46:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndenev@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752B08FC20 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:46:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndenev@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so2449579wra.13 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:46:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=Bs6ovNeCYgXWpr8xU6BQNuzgu2Vktr38nf6f/zfyhR4=; b=gBXJ9RJgAa9ywpjnfOkJW+M280UHrARTVrPSACp+YrUyAAxGOjTUZGTZuyPf/dhUCV1laWoMoJfN8JhsActHiqqUqQ/8SZss3IxdPxVipm/iLHOE0IkCpTTOf19FtntvzluQ0vw8f9ZmO9dZ6hb5A85aTSHDvGbxcqsVBJOGUY0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=UBT3k3Goy/e4xfjCWGaVBqP27Y0QI8GhF31GH+2yoK2FCdVrPEwirUGuOtBtth3YbVNJUGwMGzLyIU4jj+GElupEmY/Gm45nzOZTNyHrX4I6Krk6HKXs0Wm2kthilTetMdLN0ydploh+O85W3tF3jBf4asX4xoyCZqhE0kgOy+E= Received: by 10.141.164.13 with SMTP id r13mr277106rvo.65.1207257502999; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.207.1 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2e77fc10804031418t47181f0ekf4a93e134dacb7aa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:18:22 +0300 From: "Niki Denev" Sender: ndenev@gmail.com To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080403202620.GG48868@bunrab.catwhisker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080403202620.GG48868@bunrab.catwhisker.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 03377359ae753ef7 Cc: Subject: Re: Is describing sysctl variables useful? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:46:27 -0000 On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, David Wolfskill wrote: > At work, I'm trying to get some measurements for what is going on on > various systems, especially when developers are trying to use them. > (The goal is to improve the situation; measurement is a rather early > step in that process.) > > To that end, I've cobbled up a Perl script that acts as a "wrapper" > around time(1) and uses that command to obtain the "rusage" (ref. > getrusage(2)) information about the command in question. > > I've started to expand this to try to obtain information about the > machine as a whole, in order to allow a comparison of the results > from one run of a command to another to have some plausible meaning. > > For this, I thought that certain values reported by sysctl(8) might > be of use. > > In the process of starting to investigate this, I noted that while > some of the variables have decscriptions (ref. "sysctl -d"), others lack > them. > > Since I'm likely to be sniffing around to figure out what these things > are, would it be a useful exercise for me to submit PRs (in > appropriately-sized chunks) to provide such descriptions? > > I have no desire to submit PRs merely for the exercise; I've submitted > PRs before, so I'm unlikely to do it merely for the sake of novelty. :-} > > But if it stands a reasonable chance of being a useful thing for the > project, I'm happy to help. > > Thoughts? > > Peace, > david > -- > David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org > I submit that "conspiracy" would be an appropriate collective noun for cats. > > See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. > Hi David, There is such project on the project ideas page : http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-docsysctl Maybe you can ping the listed technical contacts... Regards, Niki