On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > Then look up the definition of kread() in the same file, and
> > > how the contents of cur.cp_time are used in the cpustats()
> > > function. Note that "cur" is a "struct statinfo", which is
> > > defined in /usr/include/devstat.h. The CPU states are defined
> > > in /usr/include/sys/dkstat.h.
> >
> > We probably should make this into a sysctl to divorce the binaries from
> > having to read kvm.
>
> Sounds like a good idea. But then again, vmstat.c uses kvm
> for about a dozen different things. Shouldn't they all be
> made into sysctls then? Just wondering...
Many of them can already be obtained via sysctl (e.g. vmtotal, proc
list). This is rather historical dependency, or one related to very rare
uses (like reading VM statistics from post mortem dump).
Andrzej Bialecki
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