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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:13:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brent B.Powers <powers@b2pi.com>
To:        Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Cc:        Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /proc info
Message-ID:  <14941.5812.168075.23941@Max.B2Pi.com>
In-Reply-To: <E14GMs0-000Oj6-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
References:  <E14GMs0-000Oj6-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>

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>>>>> "Cliff" == Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> writes:

    Cliff> FreeBSD is neat, but I too miss Linux's /proc ..  Cliff

If you've linux_base installed, you can take a look at

/compat/linux/proc


I've got it symlinked to /linproc


    >> 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.
    >> 
    >> 
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