Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:38:27 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring? Message-ID: <20011122103611.V451-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <15356.43487.331466.734902@guru.mired.org>
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: MM>In looking over the various options for monitoring the health of the MM>hardware, I notice that it's pretty much a mess. All the software in MM>question runs privileged and grovels through memory in some way. MM> MM>Linux uses a device driver that's a directory full of files holding MM>sensor information. That doesn't seem to be the right direction for MM>FBSD, though. An option that enabled a set of sysctls to collect the MM>information seemed to be more approrpiate. MM> MM>Comments? Suggestions? Brickbats? What's bad about using files? Just to be different? Isn't it easier to select, poll, kqueue, what ever on files than on sysctls? harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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