Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > MM>Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > MM>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > MM>> MM>Linux uses a device driver that's a directory full of files holding > MM>> MM>sensor information. That doesn't seem to be the right direction for > MM>> MM>F

Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-22 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Harti Brandt wrote: > What's bad about using files? Just to be different? Isn't it easier to > select, poll, kqueue, what ever on files than on sysctls? /proc files are horrible if you sample at reasonable rates, say 10-100 hz. We found (on Linux, maybe fbsd is better) that

Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-22 Thread Joerg Micheel
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:51:10PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > Taking a Linux driver to argue against > something doesn't really make sense. There is so many crap in the Linux > kernel, that you can argue against anything: "The crappy unix domain > sockets don't work in Linux. Oh yeah, they are a

Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-22 Thread Harti Brandt
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Joerg Micheel wrote: JM>On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: JM>> It's just annoying to need a special program to get at the values. For JM>> some parts of the MIB, like the interface MIB, even sysctl doesn't help - JM>> you need to write a program to

Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-22 Thread Joerg Micheel
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > It's just annoying to need a special program to get at the values. For > some parts of the MIB, like the interface MIB, even sysctl doesn't help - > you need to write a program to look at these. I still think, its easier to > read the

Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-22 Thread Harti Brandt
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: MM>Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: MM>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: MM>> MM>Linux uses a device driver that's a directory full of files holding MM>> MM>sensor information. That doesn't seem to be the right direction for MM>> MM>FBSD, thoug

Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > MM>Linux uses a device driver that's a directory full of files holding > MM>sensor information. That doesn't seem to be the right direction for > MM>FBSD, though. An option that enabled a set of sysctls to collect t

Re: sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-22 Thread Harti Brandt
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: MM>In looking over the various options for monitoring the health of the MM>hardware, I notice that it's pretty much a mess. All the software in MM>question runs privileged and grovels through memory in some way. MM> MM>Linux uses a device driver that's a dir

sysctls for hardware monitoring?

2001-11-21 Thread Mike Meyer
In looking over the various options for monitoring the health of the hardware, I notice that it's pretty much a mess. All the software in question runs privileged and grovels through memory in some way. Linux uses a device driver that's a directory full of files holding sensor information. That d