From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 03:40:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2BB4106566B for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 03:40:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbrabez@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D048FC15 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 03:40:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbrabez@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so948987anc.13 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:40:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=aZNqV3rKEUgXU/zk9Sg0hfLHIK3e3np0UXCLZet9Mjs=; b=YO9xQr50MwuMJU+8mRs5lFcHpVr/cWO717tYwg/c3E6Zg7dAvCz3CVieg8Hm1WxbKyoSfQ6VGy+QubHztJwUsRjhT/KfBECa9PWkJoIGvRvkBV5dNJBuGMmb57doDe+J++GRoGgU1NsbX9CRAa6haTaprvHNSx7+SKIWd+RPfS4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CWISJTUdnpF6nvr0vLoAz3Id7tr1I7+rmHTfKqFF2UwDMXJwrkuUGBv6tN8YutTzJ//Xq4kYuPzs+VyfchyQusd5aedx1jLG5u+7aHftiK8iCwhxuSJ8FQUN7SSdIQ51UhOywnVr2acMjqcfgGxH7GWWv3J0nB+Szf3d7vBGZlk= Received: by 10.100.255.17 with SMTP id c17mr1549047ani.37.1207278702019; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:11:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.31.2 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3456f9ca0804032011i7db909d4qc34ff53bd6f7aa28@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 05:11:41 +0200 From: "Sofian Brabez" To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080403202620.GG48868@bunrab.catwhisker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080403202620.GG48868@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Cc: Subject: Re: Is describing sysctl variables useful? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:40:52 -0000 About syscl(3) OID description lack, i send my Google Summer Code application to complete it this summer ;). I identify alls lacks in sysctl at http://6dev.net/~sbz/sysctl.txt and i want to correct them during Google Summer Code. My application was sent since 30 March 2008 via Google student Web application. Best Regards -- sbz On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Wolfskill wrote: > At work, I'm trying to get some measurements for what is going on on > various systems, especially when developers are trying to use them. > (The goal is to improve the situation; measurement is a rather early > step in that process.) > > To that end, I've cobbled up a Perl script that acts as a "wrapper" > around time(1) and uses that command to obtain the "rusage" (ref. > getrusage(2)) information about the command in question. > > I've started to expand this to try to obtain information about the > machine as a whole, in order to allow a comparison of the results > from one run of a command to another to have some plausible meaning. > > For this, I thought that certain values reported by sysctl(8) might > be of use. > > In the process of starting to investigate this, I noted that while > some of the variables have decscriptions (ref. "sysctl -d"), others lack > them. > > Since I'm likely to be sniffing around to figure out what these things > are, would it be a useful exercise for me to submit PRs (in > appropriately-sized chunks) to provide such descriptions? > > I have no desire to submit PRs merely for the exercise; I've submitted > PRs before, so I'm unlikely to do it merely for the sake of novelty. :-} > > But if it stands a reasonable chance of being a useful thing for the > project, I'm happy to help. > > Thoughts? > > Peace, > david > -- > David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org > I submit that "conspiracy" would be an appropriate collective noun for cats. > > See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. > -- sbz