Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:07:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911041106250.18969-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911040030510.254-100000@localhost>
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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > 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 }
>
> How is that different from doing:
>
> sysctl vm.loadavg?
I was more trying to demonstrate the fact that we have sysctl(3).
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