From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 13:12:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9715A37B4CF; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:12:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA19245; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:12:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:12:41 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Mike Smith , Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user-space resource information... Message-ID: <20001105141241.A19227@panzer.kdm.org> References: <3248.973365649@critter> <200011041952.eA4JqZF11774@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20001104221812.A14843@panzer.kdm.org> <3A051B10.3E43D0C9@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A051B10.3E43D0C9@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 05:32:16PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 17:32:16 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > > I think vmstat(8) might be a better fit than iostat. vmstat already > > displays kernel memory usage (-m), interrupt usage (-i), paging stats (-s), > > and zone allocator stats (-z). > > That's vmstat's problem, not a feature. :-) > > That kind of thinking is what led to Linux /proc. > > > Since vmstat already has "kitchen sink" type functionality (i.e. a wide > > variety of uses), I think it would probably work better to put this new > > functionality there. > > If it's not vm-related, it shouldn't be listed by vmstat. Interrupts aren't vm-related either, yet vmstat displays them. > > iostat is also designed primarily for continuous output use -- displaying a > > line of stats every N seconds. vmstat is also designed for that in its > > That's the objection I raised to Mike. :-) I suggested systat, though > that has it's problems too. Well, perhaps this stuff should go in its own utility, since it doesn't really seem to fit anywhere else. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message