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To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats 
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> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > I'm interested in doing something like:
> > 
> > 	kern.stats.cpu0.idle
> > 	kern.stats.cpu0.nice
> > 	...
> > 	kern.stats.cpu1.idle
> > 	kern.stats.cpu1.nice
> > 	...
> > 
> > and I want the nodes cpu0, cpu1 etc dynamically created. 
> 
> It would be better to have
> 
> kern.stats.nice.cpu0
> kern.stats.nice.cpu1
> 
> or simply
> 
> kern.stats.nice.0

Yes, please!  It would be helpful if the kernel's MIB used instances 
(and there was easy support for creating them) like the MIBs many of
us use SNMP to access in network elements.

louie




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