From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 5 1:41:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles502.castles.com [208.214.165.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFBC14EA4 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:41:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00472; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:32:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911050932.BAA00472@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Nov 1999 00:49:48 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 01:32:48 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Sysctl is faster than kstat once you have performed the name->oid > > lookup. There is basically nothing that kstat can do that sysctl can't > > do better and faster, apart from lookup-by-name. > > Except for dynamic registration right? No, Peter fixed that a while back. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message