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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:52:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911041252130.18969-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991104092304.A708@home.com>

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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
> I just looked at the sysctl implementation and there are some differences.
> Moreover, since it was not being used in tools like vmstat and xosview,
> I thought there must be a reason.
> 
> sysctl also seems to assume that it doesn't get called frequently. So
> mapping the name to the sysctl data is a slightly more heavy duty
> operation than a hash table lookup.

Wouldn't hashing the sysctl OIDs be the way to go then?

Why invent another namespace?

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