Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:51:48 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Jason K. Fritcher" <jkf@calweb.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Process table question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811172121370.14793-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811162323170.5490-100000@web2.calweb.com>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Jason K. Fritcher wrote: > > Hello. I am making a system monitor for FreeBSD 2.[12].x and 3.0, and am > trying to find a kvm-independant way of counting the number of processes in > the process table. I have thought about using opendir() on /proc and > counting the number of directory entries, but I was wondering if there was > something like a sysctl or other system call to gather the information, or Sure. See: src/release/picobsd/tinyware/sps for example how to do this. > is the /proc method the best? It's one of many. IMHO sysctl(3) is the best one. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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