Subject: Re: vmstat and netstat....
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/27/2006 12:02:51
> It was recently pointed out that a few commands (vmstat, netstat)
> require a kernel file (/netbsd) in the root filesystem in order to
> provide, for example, accurate statistics.
>
That's not true. When I added /dev/ksyms a few years ago I changed
the kvm routines to try that first. Only if you have removed the
ksyms pseudo-device the tools will use the /netbsd namelist.
-- Ragge