From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 20:32:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05501065702 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gobble.wa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (mail-wi0-f172.google.com [209.85.212.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5B78FC12 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhm11 with SMTP id hm11so832512wib.13 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:32:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=hvOlT3Jkin1nDr6sFSprbVsdVEin0n4enbl6kDQmKzs=; b=ojDTrwL2+X7cdOdHhjFpuTC4yfUBmNomtA9QCVtnQ2kiuSaLthIDp4GgChd/oexRSE BEK3RKv8cAyGpjRPOWOaeo8NEREfQhy45TXEL+5wE/tClHCDuJxh1ofGQOdUWt6gJKzN S1gDpOhlFLJLUXhpU5ijl5+EANJfRSKEYNNLBl8FQ5lwowYGRAlYa8pzgmMaVFhao7JA W8P4RUprSd5U0QaURZZjIVrjcM6DC966wL9ptlPjuQNvvST1J1W5O0x2g2tfQy8sEBx0 bTXq+ZGsJsyk0M7IT2ambB97M98YPGhOMn8HzeKiEEeXAy48VC2Gfe/jIoy8FzRMTqyV KupQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.206.159 with SMTP id l31mr1788704weo.2.1340397155097; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.138.220 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:32:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FE4BD13.3000204@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:32:35 -0700 Message-ID: From: Waitman Gobble To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 20:32:36 -0000 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 22 June 2012 11:44, Matthew Seaman > wrote: > > 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 > system > >>> > 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. A neat little project > > 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. > -- > Eitan Adler > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > that sounds great, also, for the moment you can try grep in /usr/src and usually find what you are looking for there. Usually the source code is well-documented, and you can see which switches do what. an idea... Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA