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 and that case had to be withdrawn on account of the instability of 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.
I can't see from the case what they are and what OpenSolaris interfaces are consumed to get them. The submitted case talks about Linux and BSD not not OpenSolaris. -- Darren J Moffat
