On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 06:50:42PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >And what exactly is sysmon?
> Ok.
[...]
Thanks for the description.
> Yah, I ought to write a sysmon(9) manual page.
Yes. That's what I was clumsily hinting at... :-)
Thanks.
> >I see it in src/sys/dev/sysmon, but its hard to know what it should
> >be unless it's documented. envsys still has the "This API is
> >experimental and may be deprecated at any time" note on it and:
>
> Eh, I don't really agree with that. It's pretty well entrenched now,
We should update the docs, then.
> and while the argument could be made for sysctl'ing it now that we have
> a better sysctl, I think the interface should still be provided through
> sysmon.
I think this is reasonable, and something I was considering while
looking through this stuff.
> I'm not familiar with cpufreq(9), but it's certainly reasonable to mine
> it for ideas for a similar subsystem in sysmon. So long as the API is
> generic enough to represent different configuration models for this
> type of thing.
I'll take a look at drawing up a proposal for this and posting on
tech-kern.
-allen
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