Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:32:40 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libmemstat(3) - Library for monitoring kernel memory use Message-ID: <20060609113101.W70317@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20060608234805.GM40068@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <C1BBF34889A04C4C8ACEE5C7CC753FDFCCA68E@PNE-HJN-MBX01.wipro.com> <20060606071736.J68996@fledge.watson.org> <20060606073436.GK27880@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20060606090919.U68996@fledge.watson.org> <20060608234805.GM40068@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > >>Erm, Robert, where does memtop live ? I can find it in ports nor base > >>system. > > > >memtop is an experimental monitoring tool based on libmemstat, you can > find > >the source here: > > > > http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/libmemstat/ > > > >Possibly something like this could be integrated into systat, but my > >ncurses knowledge is a bit weak, and I've not had a chance to > investigate > >further. As with vmstat, the interpretation of the output requires a > >moderate amount of insight into how the kernel works, so I've been a bit > >reluctant to push it as a debugging tool without some more refinement. > I > >think it would be neat if someone picked it up and did something useful > >with it, though :-). > > I assume this only works with -CURRENT ? It should build and run on 6.1 forwards also, as libmemstat was MFC'd in as part of fixing mbuf allocator statistics on SMP. I'm able to build and run memtop on 6-STABLE dated March 12. Robert N M Watson
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