Re: bin/20767

[Elad Efrat <elad%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:15:04AM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
> >    |    - The patch uses kvm(3).
> >  
> >  where I suspect that adding yet more kmem grovellers, where the
> >  direction has been (for good reason) to eliminate them, is not going
> >  to meet with much success.
>
> Fair enough. Reducing the use of kmem sounds highly welcome, but I didn't
> know that the usage of kvm is discouraged also in this particular scenario.

If you are reading information from the live kernel, it is always
discouraged, regardless of the scenario.

-e.