YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:

> > Heck, I'm almost to the point where I've felt I've spent too much time
> > arguing about this and *I* should just go and convert them all. 
> 
> i'd like to see something like solaris kstat rather than
> "everything by sysctl".
> (well, it's on my todo list, but no eta.)

The current sysctl methods used by the converted kmem grovellers are
loosely based on ideas from HPUX pstat (I think that was the name).  We
already had sysctls for kern.proc and others, so I kept the new fetch
methods under the existing sysctl framework rather than adding a new
method.

How does kstat differ from what we're doing now?

Simon.
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