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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:05:08 -0500
From:      "Rob Snow" <rsnow@lgc.com>
To:        "Brett Taylor" <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, <rneswold@mcs.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-Questions List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: linux_devel doesn't seem to work
Message-ID:  <000701bddb53$36c39dc0$3c738486@zycor.lgc.com>

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Thanks for the info, I'll look for it.  Im also going to play with wmifs, it
croaks on some ppp stuff.  I get the same results after chopping out all the
ppp stuffs.  Same results == runs, no pretty graphs.

I'm assuming that in both cases that it's a matter of /proc and /dev issues.

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To: <rneswold@mcs.net>
Cc: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com>; FreeBSD-Questions List
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: linux_devel doesn't seem to work


>Hi,
>
>On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Richard M. Neswold wrote:
>> If memory serves, didn't Rob Snow say:
>
>> 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.
>
>If you want to see how this works, check out a non-committed port,
>wmavgload (pr # 7344).  I've also got patches to get asload up and running
>but I haven't instituted that into the afterstep-devel port.  Part of the
>problem is the present beta for AS-1.5 won't even start to compile due to
>a bad configure script and I don't have time to mess with it (and
>apparently neither do the AS development people).  :-P
>
>Brett
>******************************************************************
>Brett Taylor            brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu
>http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/
>
>"There is something uncanny in the noiseless rush of the cyclist,
> as he comes into view, passes by, and disappears."
> -   Popular Science, 1891
>


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