On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:32:46PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > ... > Whilst not addressing your issues with sysctl, have you considered > using process accounting (acct(5) and sa(8))?
Yes, but I have the impression (of which I wouldn't mind being disabused) that that approach would perturb the systems being measured somewhat more than using time(1) for the selected processes and sysctl(8) to get information on the overall system status. Note that I'm interested in measuring rather specific instantiations of certain commands/processes -- not the bulk of them. I believe that makes a salient difference. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submit that "conspiracy" would be an appropriate collective noun for cats. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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