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  2. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
  3. Subject: Reading stuff from the kernal
  4. Message-ID: <223@io.trident.datasys.swri.edu>
  5. From: johns@io.datasys.swri.edu (Stephen Johns)
  6. Date: 23 Nov 92 19:10:35 GMT
  7. Sender: johns@trident.datasys.swri.edu
  8. Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
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  11. What is the best/approved way of programatically monitoring kernal performance?
  12. I want to watch memory usage, CPU time and network load primarily.
  13. Basically the stuff osview and sar do.  Is using the namelist stuff, ie
  14. struct nlist nl[] = { {"_freemem"} etc.. }  nlist ( "/unix", nl );
  15. ok?  recommented? and if so, where can I find all the availale names
  16. like "_freemem"?
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