From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 7: 9:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E1D37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:09:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14GMs0-000Oj6-00; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:09:00 +0000 To: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: /proc info Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:09:00 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD is neat, but I too miss Linux's /proc .. Cliff > blaz@satx.rr.com (blaz) writes: > > > greetings, > > > > I am making the transition into FreeBSD, and it has been very enjoyable > > so far. Information that I use to find useful in slackware was the > > /proc/cpuinfo, > > pci, meminfo, etc.. when i stray into /proc on FreeBSD it seems to be > > nothing > > but numbers. Is there any information that is equal to what slackware > > spewed > > out? > > That information is generally available in other places on FreeBSD. > sysctl variables, vmstat(8), pciconf(8), top(1), and lots of other > places. FreeBSD is also more aggressive in trying to keep all of its > memory in use, so this kind of information for memory usage is much > harder to interpret for the naive user. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message