Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
> A user program makes a system call with this string "cpu.system" to get
> the current value of user/system/nice time etc.

How is this different from doing:

# sysctl -a | grep load
vm.loadavg: { 0.15 0.09 0.04 }

Ideally we could have a syscall that could return the OID for a given name
to solve the portability and speed issues associated with doing repeated
lookups.

Seems like you've reinvented the wheel to me.

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