On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On 22 June 2012 11:44, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> > wrote: > > On 22/06/2012 18:40, Eitan Adler wrote: > >>> q) Is there a place where all sysctl variables are documented? It > >>> > occurred to me when I was trying to find the memory usage on my > system > >>> > but `sysctl -a | grep mem' shows a whole bunch of stuff. > > > >> You can try sysctl -ad but most of the systls are either documented in > >> man pages or not at all. :( > > > > It would be a really handy thing if the output of 'sysctl -d' told you > > what man page to refer to for more information. A neat little project > > but pretty boring to implement. > > Agreed. I don't have the time to do this directly, but I'm willing to > commit patches that do this. > -- > Eitan Adler > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > that sounds great, also, for the moment you can try grep in /usr/src and usually find what you are looking for there. Usually the source code is well-documented, and you can see which switches do what. an idea... Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
