On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:48:04AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:32:03AM +0000, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > What does it use on OpenSolaris ? Does it use kstat ? If so how does > > it use them ? > > > > I can't see from this case what it consumes on Solaris and what type of > > stats I'd expect to get. > > We had an earlier case that proposed enabling remote access to kstats, > and that case had to be withdrawn on account of the instability of > kstats. The same logic would have to apply here, but then, I suspect > that it won't because: a) Linux familiarity rules will apply, b) my > sense from the libstatgrab home page is that it uses only a subset of > stats that are reasonably common across many operating systems, > therefore likely to be stable in practice.
Oh, but I think I misunderstood: libstatgrab doesn't provide a remote stats protocol.
