From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 11:06:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16230 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pixel.zycor.lgc.com (pixel.zycor.lgc.com [134.132.112.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16224 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsnow@lgc.com) Received: from rsnow.zycor.lgc.com ([134.132.115.60]) by pixel.zycor.lgc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA19095; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:05:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rsnow@lgc.com) Message-ID: <000701bddb53$36c39dc0$3c738486@zycor.lgc.com> From: "Rob Snow" To: "Brett Taylor" , Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions List" Subject: Re: linux_devel doesn't seem to work Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:05:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Cc: Rob Snow ; FreeBSD-Questions List 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message