From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 17:04:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC61C16A400 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:04:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Received: from iris.acsalaska.net (iris.acsalaska.net [209.112.173.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D90013C4A5 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:04:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Received: from [192.168.254.100] (209-112-136-196-cdsl-rb1.nwc.acsalaska.net [209.112.136.196]) by iris.acsalaska.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l18H4Af4001475; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:04:11 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Message-ID: <45CB580D.7080307@alaska.net> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:04:13 -0900 From: Royce Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACS-Spam-Status: no X-ACS-Scanned-By: MD 2.57; SA 3.1.6; spamdefang 1.118 Subject: BSDstats and FreeBSD/sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:04:16 -0000 A quick check of BSDstats (www.bsdstats.org, maintained by Marc Fournier) shows a pretty meager showing of FreeBSD sparc64 systems: sparc64 25 0.45% 6.x sparc64 19 0.34% 5.x sparc64 3 0.05% 4.x sparc64 1 0.02% 6.2 sparc64 12 0.22% 6.1 sparc64 6 0.11% 5.5 sparc64 1 0.02% 5.3 sparc64 1 0.02% 6.0 sparc64 1 0.02% 5.4 sparc64 1 0.02% 6.2-STABLE sparc64 5 0.09% 6.2-RELEASE sparc64 3 0.05% 6.1-STABLE sparc64 3 0.05% 6.1-RELEASE sparc64 3 0.05% 6.2-RC1 sparc64 2 0.04% 5.3-STABLE sparc64 1 0.02% 5.5-STABLE sparc64 1 0.02% 6.2-PRERELEASE sparc64 1 0.02% 6.0-CURRENT sparc64 1 0.02% 5.4-RELEASE-p8 sparc64 1 0.02% 6.2-RC2 sparc64 1 0.02% If you haven't heard of BSDstats before, it's a pretty interesting resource. Here's the blurb from the site's mission statement: "The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for advocacy and marketing of the *BSD operating systems. "More specifically, we are trying to demonstrate to hardware and software vendors out there that *BSD should be viewed as a serious operating system, not just as a hobbyist system, for support (ie. hardware drivers) purposes." If the BSDs need to demonstrate this, then from the statistics above, FreeBSD/sparc64 needs an extra helping. :) It would be great for the list members to pitch in. The port is sysutils/bsdstats. The install will ask you if you want to add these to your periodic.conf, and will prompt you to run it right away. It runs once a month out of /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics. Marc's got some checking in place so that multiple attempts to send statistics won't result in duplicates. "To enable the port, edit or create /etc/periodic.conf and add this line: monthly_statistics_enable="YES" To enable device reporting, add this line: monthly_statistics_report_devices="YES" To enable ports reporting, add this line: monthly_statistics_report_ports="YES" To run it manually the first time, just run it as: /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics -nodelay To view current statistics, go to: http://www.bsdstats.org" It also works on the other BSDs, so if any list members have SPARCs running other OSes, the more the merrier. :) It's also fun to watch the stats grow, and to check back after the first of the month to see how the statistics have changed. Royce -- FreeBSD - The SPARC to Serve http://www.alaska.net/~royce/gfx/the-SPARC-to-serve.jpg