On Fri, Nov 18, 2011, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: >> What is the line between sysctl vs globals ? >> > > Checking again, it makes sense having the sysctl IMHO. > We have something very similar in kern.forkstat, kern.nchstats, and > the protocol stats.
I think those stats are useful for a sysadmin to monitor performance, and there actions one can take to affect them. The scheduler is not really controllable. If you just want to peek at some values for debugging, pstat is the way to go. That's why I added it. ;)