Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:06:06 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project Message-ID: <20060804160529.I25268@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <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> <20060804132603.O25268@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote: > 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? BTW, if anyone out there likes doing HTML and web pages, please let me know ... anything *I* do will be as utilititarian as I can make them :) ---- 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
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