Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 02:53:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911040251030.18969-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <19991103215642.A31757@home.com>
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
> A user program makes a system call with this string "cpu.system" to get
> the current value of user/system/nice time etc.
How is this different from doing:
# sysctl -a | grep load
vm.loadavg: { 0.15 0.09 0.04 }
Ideally we could have a syscall that could return the OID for a given name
to solve the portability and speed issues associated with doing repeated
lookups.
Seems like you've reinvented the wheel to me.
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