From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 11 18:58:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11756 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:58:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles78.castles.com [208.214.165.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11723 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07080; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811120255.SAA07080@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: The Hermit Hacker cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice-5.0... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:52:44 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:55:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Moved to -chat > > > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I have to ask - why do you care? I can think of much better things to > > do with my time than stare at the list of IRQ's in use - what do they > > expect them to do? A little song and dance number perhaps? > > Well, in the case of the IRQs, I don't much care...but its one of > those "does it harm anything to *have* that information in /proc"? It's the wrong place, and sets a bad precedent. Our "kitchen sink" parametric access mechanism is sysctl(). It's probably reasonable to mount that as a filesystem somewhere, but it is fundamentally wrong to abuse procfs for that. > > (If you need the information, try 'systat -vmstat'.) > > Cool, never knew about that one, thanks :) I learn a new thing > each and every time I get into these conversations :( The 'systat -vmstat' display is *the* system health monitor for a FreeBSD system. With the exception of network traffic, you can monitor just about every vital sign from that one display. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message