On 17 November 2011 23:39, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011, Thordur Bjornsson wrote: >> On 2011 Nov 17 (Thu) at 21:18:24 -0200 (-0200), Christiano F. Haesbaert >> wrote: >>> Moving this to tech@ >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was studying the scheduler code after watching tedu's talk, I'd like >>> to expose this statistics to userland so that I can try playing with >>> cache affinity in the future: >>> >>> gimli:src: sysctl kern.schedstat >> >>> kern.schedstat.nmigrations=23744 >>> kern.schedstat.noidle=0 >>> kern.schedstat.stolen=9170 >>> kern.schedstat.choose=834843 >>> kern.schedstat.wasidle=808711 >>> kern.schedstat.nomigrations=2388 >>> >>> Opinions ? >> >> I see no point in exporting this out. They are essentially pointless >> knobs that people _will_ fiddle with without a clue. > > ??? They're readonly. >
Mike just pointed out I can get those with pstat, so that solves my problem. Still maybe there is a place for sysctl, but I'm not too strong about it anymore. What is the line between sysctl vs globals ?
