Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:18:10 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Fred Morcos <fred.morcos@gmail.com>, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions Message-ID: <CAF6rxgnBDRjoGLVNSmADNOfFYdJitT0W1XgN_up3KzSEQZ=2bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FE4BD13.3000204@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAH3a3KWEik7nViy2VDBka-a7X9Ew-NrFrW5hPQMT1d2UgGLpzA@mail.gmail.com> <jrt7n5$3js$2@dough.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206202155100.2866@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <CAH3a3KUWc_a_8Ts8m2VHEYx5TNoGKGv_zCgMxhRkPbC9wvziaQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxg=ZACcNR641SHmE6P6jjCphNMzoK7XYGCmGS8pEfYAe3g@mail.gmail.com> <4FE4BD13.3000204@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 22 June 2012 11:44, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wro= te: > On 22/06/2012 18:40, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> q) Is there a place where all sysctl variables are documented? It >>> > occurred to me when I was trying to find the memory usage on my syste= m >>> > but `sysctl -a | grep mem' shows a whole bunch of stuff. > >> You can try sysctl -ad but most of the systls are either documented in >> man pages or not at all. :( > > It would be a really handy thing if the output of 'sysctl -d' told you > what man page to refer to for more information. =C2=A0A neat little proje= ct > but pretty boring to implement. Agreed. I don't have the time to do this directly, but I'm willing to commit patches that do this. --=20 Eitan Adler
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