Module Name: src
Committed By: pgoyette
Date: Sun Jan 1 23:59:19 UTC 2017
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man7: sysctl.7
Log Message:
Document kern.hist
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diff -u src/share/man/man7/sysctl.7:1.104 src/share/man/man7/sysctl.7:1.105
--- src/share/man/man7/sysctl.7:1.104 Thu Nov 17 01:22:00 2016
+++ src/share/man/man7/sysctl.7 Sun Jan 1 23:59:19 2017
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: sysctl.7,v 1.104 2016/11/17 01:22:00 pgoyette Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: sysctl.7,v 1.105 2017/01/01 23:59:19 pgoyette Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -547,6 +547,27 @@ otherwise\ 0.
Returns the number of
.Xr hardclock 9
ticks.
+.It Li kern.hist
+This variable contains kernel history data if the kernel was
+configured for any of the options
+.Dv UVHMIST ,
+.Dv USB_DEBUG ,
+.Dv BIOHIST ,
+or
+.Dv SCDEBUG .
+(See
+.Xr options 4
+for more details.)
+The third-level names correspond to each available history table.
+The values of the history tables are in an internal format, and can be
+decoded by the
+.Xr vmstat 1
+utility's
+.Dv -U
+and
+.Dv u
+options;
+the -l option can be used to see which tables are available.
.It Li kern.hostid ( Dv KERN_HOSTID )
Get or set the host identifier.
This is aimed to replace the legacy
