From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Aug 24 0: 0: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D961B37B424 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id AAA56259; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008240700.AAA56259@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: misc/20808: netstat -m doesn't use -N or -M arguments, nor warn about it Reply-To: Bruce Evans Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/20808; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans To: imp@village.org Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/20808: netstat -m doesn't use -N or -M arguments, nor warn about it Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:57:41 +1000 (EST) On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 imp@village.org wrote: > >Description: > The netstat -m option reports the number of mbuf in use. Netstat -N and -M > allow for specification of a core and kernel file to use rather than the > current running system. The mbuf stat code in mbuf.h (specifically mbpr) > doesn't fallback to getting the information from core file. Nor > does it warn about it :-( Support for "-M core -N system" is mostly dysfunctional. Support for dead kernels was mostly in libkvm and was lost when we downgraded to using only sysctl to read kernel info. Support for netstat's -m on dead kernels was lost in the corresponding downgrade in netstat. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message