From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 20:23:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4AE1065672 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8A28FC08 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbon10 with SMTP id n10so4998137lbo.13 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:23:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=myZwDo5ioptCKobxe4Xp2mod3r/7HpCK79u7rLKxVrY=; b=nIo99S4zA+cdFZDaKUOsqhtHXKY0SzprbB0OQ2ZemK80RCDNq+zhPtP/g+FQTRr/sZ s5opGUsL6PsUD4wJ644w6IEzPfXoHpHWe0C808o8CX1JLjbmnQFUAeHCZmxBVUswglMj 5ur4sHj/v0yxqYV9PKNv52oIhLG6fRjS3XJhY= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=myZwDo5ioptCKobxe4Xp2mod3r/7HpCK79u7rLKxVrY=; b=ij+zqZcXpRAKUAxRYk1ZbwZB3lC7l9jXvcmISV+ut0LDxwEpdi/1ZEtBppLiSv3GQ4 aou3vaeKaXR8I1tSOOMCXyPSvea61oAeoGlHaUfBlTjPDXPLmAhOgWNw78URVXDv9FRd 52v2ArPp4AeNFhIwKUEZwjVTlGag3k380Z+Pi873maSE2s/dOa828f5P07Yfv/lbgy7U H/q7fRpC6CihiKhMixEiNU+JZ1Nf9yIwmt5XkN9BPAH5r4VgPJuBoEQU+6ziwXoIi2/I 09n92PoQtAk100q/52l5pYglE22F9IlDzrfOOzpN+JFTx6dKvYmgHyGVDCIh/hohp1Vj /fTA== Received: by 10.152.103.109 with SMTP id fv13mr3340087lab.33.1340396617513; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:23:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.125.70 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:18:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FE4BD13.3000204@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4FE4BD13.3000204@infracaninophile.co.uk> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:18:10 -0700 Message-ID: To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQngnfX9a+MqoHfR82apjHXwdR+5pGG+Yt2Qmdmdjtc8vPBsKvXafZXlv/OsRRkOZZCfJ2v6 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Fred Morcos , Walter Hurry Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:23:39 -0000 On 22 June 2012 11:44, Matthew Seaman wro= te: > On 22/06/2012 18:40, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> q) Is there a place where all sysctl variables are documented? It >>> > occurred to me when I was trying to find the memory usage on my syste= m >>> > but `sysctl -a | grep mem' shows a whole bunch of stuff. > >> You can try sysctl -ad but most of the systls are either documented in >> man pages or not at all. :( > > It would be a really handy thing if the output of 'sysctl -d' told you > what man page to refer to for more information. =C2=A0A neat little proje= ct > but pretty boring to implement. Agreed. I don't have the time to do this directly, but I'm willing to commit patches that do this. --=20 Eitan Adler