Such an interface, for generic userland statistical gathering, need not be
[and thus should not be] implemented via a kernel-land system call.
bloat, bloat, bloat.
Chuck
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Ricardo Bernardini wrote:
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >You can add "counters" with sysctl. You can also add read/write
> >variables of any type.
>
> You can add them dynamically at runtime? How do you know which counters are
> available at a given time?
>
> >One thing that puzzles me; you say "userland processes can add their
> >own". What value would that have, since there'd be nothing in the
> >kernel that would do anything with such an object?
>
> But if a user mode server can mantain performance statistics there, then
> some performance monitoring tool would be able to query that counters and
> allow some analysis. It can be done by other means, but I think it can be
> usefull having it all together using a unique system call.
>
> Saludos / Regards
> Ricardo
>
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