Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 05:48:42 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: determining context switching? Message-ID: <20020329134842.33850.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020329082538.25172A-100000@p2>
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--- Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu> wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to determine the context switching rate? > > In /usr/include/sys/vmmeter.h the structure > > struct vmmeter { > u_int v_swtch; /* context switches */ > . > . > . > } > > looks like what I want but I can't find a function which returns this data > to a user land application. Is this possible? If so how? Have you tried to use any of the sysctl(3) functions? Try doing the following on the command line: shell# apropos sysctl Hope this helps. :) Thanks, -- Hiten Pandya -- <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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