Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > 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 }
> 
> How is that different from doing:
> 
> sysctl vm.loadavg?

I was more trying to demonstrate the fact that we have sysctl(3).

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