From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 5 4:41:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 706E7151AD for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 04:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE351C03; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 20:39:58 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Nov 1999 01:32:48 PST." <199911050932.BAA00472@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 20:39:58 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991105123958.3AE351C03@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. Actually, I think that particular one was done by Doug Rabson. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message