From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 16:30:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0669C16A558 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:30:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF5A43D4C for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:30:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50282291B0D; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:30:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84328-01; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:30:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691A1290C6D; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:30:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 60C15352F6; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:30:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B86B33DF1; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:30:06 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:30:06 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Antony Mawer In-Reply-To: <44D34C9D.50308@mawer.org> Message-ID: <20060804132603.O25268@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060803180553.B6529@ganymede.hub.org> <200608040314.k743EBK6050609@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <44D3262B.2000400@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20060804101513.R25268@ganymede.hub.org> <44D34C9D.50308@mawer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Olivier Nicole , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:30:12 -0000 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >>> This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? >>> pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or >>> even how many there are. It doesn't tell you exactly what sort of memory >>> or disk drives the system uses -- all of which would be important >>> information that might just persuade hardware manufacturers to provide >>> more FreeBSD support. Surely a condensed version of /var/run/dmesg.boot is >>> more to the point. >> >> /var/run/dmesg.boot can't be relied on, unfortunately ... I've had *many* >> times where a reboot leaves that blank, or with "non-dmesg like" output ... >> if you can provide a non-dmesg method of adding this information that is >> consistent (ie. pciconf), then sure, we can add this sort of information >> ... > > Some of this information can be gathered from the hw.* sysctl's, at least on > 6.x... 'k, what I'm going to work on this weekend is a first pass at both the periodic script, and the receiving database ... I will post the script when completed, so that we can test what has been discussed so far, then we can look at adding on 'features' from there to pull in more information ... Fair enough? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664