From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 19:06:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDE916A4DD for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:06:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAE043D4C for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:06:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19616291B11; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:06:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30412-02; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:06:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1BF291B0D; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:06:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 9E67C49FA6; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:06:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4D34704F; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:06:06 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:06:06 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Antony Mawer In-Reply-To: <20060804132603.O25268@ganymede.hub.org> Message-ID: <20060804160529.I25268@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060803180553.B6529@ganymede.hub.org> <200608040314.k743EBK6050609@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <44D3262B.2000400@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20060804101513.R25268@ganymede.hub.org> <44D34C9D.50308@mawer.org> <20060804132603.O25268@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Olivier Nicole , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project 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, 04 Aug 2006 19:06:10 -0000 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: > >> On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: >>> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> >>>> This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI >>>> devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the >>>> system or even how many there are. It doesn't tell you exactly what sort >>>> of memory or disk drives the system uses -- all of which would be >>>> important information that might just persuade hardware manufacturers to >>>> provide more FreeBSD support. Surely a condensed version of >>>> /var/run/dmesg.boot is more to the point. >>> >>> /var/run/dmesg.boot can't be relied on, unfortunately ... I've had *many* >>> times where a reboot leaves that blank, or with "non-dmesg like" output >>> ... if you can provide a non-dmesg method of adding this information that >>> is consistent (ie. pciconf), then sure, we can add this sort of >>> information ... >> >> Some of this information can be gathered from the hw.* sysctl's, at least >> on 6.x... > > 'k, what I'm going to work on this weekend is a first pass at both the > periodic script, and the receiving database ... I will post the script when > completed, so that we can test what has been discussed so far, then we can > look at adding on 'features' from there to pull in more information ... > > Fair enough? BTW, if anyone out there likes doing HTML and web pages, please let me know ... anything *I* do will be as utilititarian as I can make them :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664