Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 05:48:42 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: determining context switching? Message-ID: <20020329134842.33850.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020329082538.25172A-100000@p2>
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--- Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu> wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to determine the context switching rate?
>
> In /usr/include/sys/vmmeter.h the structure
>
> struct vmmeter {
> u_int v_swtch; /* context switches */
> .
> .
> .
> }
>
> looks like what I want but I can't find a function which returns this data
> to a user land application. Is this possible? If so how?
Have you tried to use any of the sysctl(3) functions? Try doing the
following on the command line:
shell# apropos sysctl
Hope this helps. :)
Thanks,
-- Hiten Pandya
-- <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
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