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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:12:08 -0700
From:      Jon Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
To:        Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with getting load information
Message-ID:  <20020425181208.A42560@stylus.haikugeek.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020326015427.48101.qmail@web11407.mail.yahoo.com>; from raysonlogin@yahoo.com on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:54:27PM -0800
References:  <20020325172816.A2514@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020326015427.48101.qmail@web11407.mail.yahoo.com>

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Rayson Ho [raysonlogin@yahoo.com] wrote :
> Does "top" use those calls??

No.

> Rayson
> 
> --- Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:16:26PM -0800, Ron Chen wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Is there a set of APIs that I can use to get the
> > > system information like the memory size, swap size, #
> > > of CPUs?
> > 
> > For some globus GRIS scripts, I'm using the sysctls
> > vm.stats.vm.v_page_size and vm.stats.vm.v_page_count to get memory
> > size.
> > I'm calculating free memory (a bogus concept in FreeBSD) as
> > total-active-inactive-wired, all of which are available under
> > vm.stats.vm.   Swap information is available from the swapinfo
> > command.
> > If you really need it in an API you could just steal the code.
> > 
> > The number of cpus is easy as it's just the hw.ncpu sysctl.  Other
> > information is currently difficult to obtain and I'm currently
> > parsing
> > the output of the cpuid port to obtain a fair bit of it.  The only
> > source of Mhz is /var/run/dmesg.boot.
> > 
> > > Also, I want to get the information about the load,
> > > and also process information.
> > 
> > Load is available from the sysctl vm.loadavg.
> > 
> > -- Brooks
> > 
> > -- 
> > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
> > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529  9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
> > 
> 
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> 
> 
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Jonathan Mini
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