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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 04:37:19 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Andy <deimos@lewman.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hardware Info 
Message-ID:  <200007161137.EAA01206@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:45:19 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007142342290.6950-100000@lowrider.lewman.org> 

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> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > 	I use the dmesg.boot as allocated resources, but without counters
> > > how do you know how much they have been used?  Sure you can estimate, but
> > > is there something such as vmstat -i for all allocated resources?
> > 
> > Can you be more specific about "how much they have been used"?
> 
> vmstat -i generates the following on my system:
> 
> interrupt      total      rate
> clk0 irq0    19762681       99
> rtc0 irq8    25293658      127
> pci irq10      418418        2
> wdc0 irq14     964519        4
> Total        46439276      234
> 
> 	Is it possible to include DMA, I/O, and other counts in the
> output?

You might be able to add resource usage for legacy ISA DMA to those 
numbers, but nobody (sane) uses ISA DMA anymore, and none of the other 
I/O activities can be cost-effectively tracked.

-- 
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]




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