Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:18:20AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>   
>> But now looking, it looks like the attempt to open /dev/ksyms on evbmips
>> at least returned ENXIO.  So maybe I need to enable ksyms.
>>
>> By the way, ksyms is *also* a big size growth (though not as much as a
>> whole kernel).  I'd rather have a sysctl consumer than have to allocate
>> space in my kernel for a kernel symbol table.  (Again, this is because
>> I'm operating in situations with tight ram constraints -- 8MB ram, and
>> similar sized flash.)
>>     
>
> Maybe it would be possible to strip the kernel to keep only symbols
> that matters ? For libkvm, all function names could probably be stripped
> at last. 
>
>   

It seems like it would probably be simpler to just add some sysctls and
make vmstat use them.

Someone mentioned that netstat already uses sysctls.  I've not check
that myself yet.

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