From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 3 23:53:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5527414CF8 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:53:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA12199; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 02:53:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 02:53:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Arun Sharma Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats In-Reply-To: <19991103215642.A31757@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message