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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Robert Watson wrote:

RW>
RW>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Borja Marcos wrote:
RW>
RW>> 	I'm not sure about the correct values in the process description
RW>> to get a picture as accurate as possible of the cpu usage of different
RW>> processes. I've seen that top uses p_runtime (FreeBSD 5 and FreeBSD 4),
RW>> but I'm not sure if the value would be really useful. 
RW>
RW>This is very cool. :-)  How are you currently extracting the information? 
RW>One of the things I've wanted to do for a while is make sure all this sort
RW>of thing is exposed via snmpd so that the information can be gathered
RW>easily across a large number of hosts (say, 10,000).

That could be a nice JUH (junior userspace hacker's) task to add a module 
to bsnmp.

harti