On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:28:21PM -0600, Jason King wrote: [...] > So we're left with a bunch of stats, some of which are quite useful, > but all are classified as unstable, no apparent way of being able to > selectively upgrade the stability of select stats (short of a > potentially large separate project along the lines that Brendan > suggested), and any attempt to use then without that basically being > shotdown for inclusion with Opensolaris because of authorship (Sun can > write mpstat and iostat and fsstat and vmstat which all use kstats, > but anyone else -- no -- those are unstable, don't touch!).
No, if this was proposed from within Sun it would get the same, or even stricter response (we could instruct Sun staff to properly address the kstat semantics as a requirement of the project - perhaps by enhancing kstats as we've suggested.) So long as you understand the issues and are careful - you can probably work around this all just fine. Brendan -- Brendan Gregg, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. http://blogs.sun.com/brendan _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
