Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 22:18:12 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user-space resource information... Message-ID: <20001104221812.A14843@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <200011041952.eA4JqZF11774@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:52:35AM -0800 References: <3248.973365649@critter> <200011041952.eA4JqZF11774@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:52:35 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > I'm wondering if this should have its own program, rather than squat > > in on iostat ? > > Adding yet another program for such a trivial fragment of code seems > kinda silly. If/when someone uses the other interfaces as well to get > the full device tree extracted, that probably belongs elsewhere, but > right now iostat is as good a place as any for this I think. I think vmstat(8) might be a better fit than iostat. vmstat already displays kernel memory usage (-m), interrupt usage (-i), paging stats (-s), and zone allocator stats (-z). iostat only displays cpu, tty and disk I/O. Since vmstat already has "kitchen sink" type functionality (i.e. a wide variety of uses), I think it would probably work better to put this new functionality there. iostat is also designed primarily for continuous output use -- displaying a line of stats every N seconds. vmstat is also designed for that in its default output mode, but most of the other displays I mentioned above are one-shot displays, like the rman code. So one more wouldn't hurt. The only thing that would recommend iostat for the rman code is the name, I think. (I/O ports, iostat, etc.) So, I'd like to request that you use vmstat instead of iostat. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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