Subject: Re: vmstat, iostat etc no longer work?
To: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 11/10/1996 17:47:31
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Ian Dall wrote:
> vmstat: can't reference kptr 0xf8f141a
> vmstat: kvm_read: Bad address
> ...
> Has the interface changed? Do I need to recompile the utilities?
No doubt. This happens on a pretty regular basis.
This is not criticism: this is an honest question. Is there a reason
we've not moved to using the /kern and /proc filesystems for this
sort of stuff, or is it just something we've not gotten around to
yet? Are there good reasons for not using /kern and /proc?
cjs
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