Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 18:48:23 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Obtain a list of active vnodes Message-ID: <200102020248.f122mNW20382@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0102011606560.3886-100000@onyx>
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Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > I tried to obtain a list of vnodes in the system. The command pstat -v no > longer works. Is there any way to achieve this or hack the code a little > bit to achieve this? Thanks. pstat -v used to call a sysctl to extract the list. THe problem was that it could be so big that it could cause a kernel lockup while the process had all the locked memory. pstat -v should probably be rewritten to use kvm_read/write() if the sysctl isn't going to be fixed. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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