From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 08:27:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16611 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:27:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drmemory.fnal.gov (drmemory.fnal.gov [131.225.105.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16598 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rneswold@drmemory.fnal.gov) Received: (from rneswold@localhost) by drmemory.fnal.gov (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA01371; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:27:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980908102720.B1353@drmemory.fnal.gov> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:27:20 -0500 From: "Richard M. Neswold" To: Rob Snow Cc: FreeBSD-Questions List Subject: Re: linux_devel doesn't seem to work Reply-To: rneswold@mcs.net References: <001101bddadf$5958dcc0$21e48486@lgc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <001101bddadf$5958dcc0$21e48486@lgc.com>; from Rob Snow on Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 11:15:44PM -0500 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold/www/pub.key X-Spambot-Food: abuse@localhost postmaster@localhost abuse@fbi.gov Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If memory serves, didn't Rob Snow say: > Never mind... deinstalled and reinstalled linux_lib and it works. ( well, > compiles and runs; doesn't do anything :-/ ) There was discussion back in August (or maybe July) about porting a CPU load monitor from Linux to FreeBSD. Linux gets the load information from the /proc filesystem. FreeBSD can get it from system variables. The bottom line is that the two methods are not compatible and some rewriting is necessary to get it to work. Check the archives for more information (I think Mike Smith provided the detailed answer) ... -- Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rich Neswold | PGP: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 rneswold@mcs.net | F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message