Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, First of all, Happy New Year. I have a question about porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD. The application I want to port, makes an extensive use of the procfs in Linux. It gathers a lot of information from those files (cpuinfo, meminfo, devices, filesystems, modules, etc...)

Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Huff
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= writes: First of all, Happy New Year. And to you, The application I want to port, makes an extensive use of the procfs in Linux. It gathers a lot of information from those files (cpuinfo, meminfo, devices, filesystems, modules, etc...)

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from FreeBSD 2 - Do the things in a completely different way (which one is this? Invoking sysctl system call?) I would like to know from you which one is the best approach. The best way to do it is to

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Jan 3, 2008 2:47 PM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from FreeBSD 2 - Do the things in a completely different way (which one is this? Invoking sysctl system call?) I would like to know from you

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported extensions, etc... But using sysctl in FreeBSD (sysctl -a) I can only see name and vendor for the

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:14:57PM +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, First of all, Happy New Year. I have a question about porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD. The application I want to port, makes an extensive use of the procfs in Linux. It gathers a lot of

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:16:42PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported extensions, etc... But using

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:14:57 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : As I know, FreeBSD has some kind of procfs but more limited in terms of information. My questions is how should I proceed now? I see two options. 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-09 Thread RW
On Thursday 08 September 2005 11:25, Subhro wrote: Deepak Naidu sat at his 'puter and typed on 9/8/2005 15:16: ... for mailing server. I used raiserfs in linux. Which ... Just something off topic, did you have any reasons for using ReiserFS in Linux and not use EXT2/3? See:

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-09 Thread RW
On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:46, Deepak Naidu wrote: 2)How to i find memory, cpu information in freebsd, apart from TOP. In linux we have free and /pro/cpuinfo. I dont see any files under /proc On the subject of /proc see: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-08 Thread Deepak Naidu
Hi, I am trying to migrate my mail servers from Fedora core 3 to FreeBSD 5.4, due to performance issue. Had few questions. 1)Which is the suitable filesystem ie UFS2, Ext2 etc... for mailing server. I used raiserfs in linux. Which File System's are supported in FreeBSD 5.4 and which is

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-08 Thread Subhro
Deepak Naidu sat at his 'puter and typed on 9/8/2005 15:16: Hi, Hello :-), I am trying to migrate my mail servers from Fedora core 3 to FreeBSD 5.4, due to performance issue. Cool! Go for it :-) 1)Which is the suitable filesystem ie UFS2, Ext2 etc... for mailing server. I used

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-08 Thread Subhro
Deepak Naidu sat at his 'puter and typed on 9/8/2005 16:55: Hey Subhro thanx for the info. I used Reiserfs in linux, bcos its reads and writes smaller files faster like file size of 1-5 Mb, basically for mailing solution. I dont know where iam wrong. I have read regarding XFS, in freebsd

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Deepak Naidu [2005-09-08 10:46 +0100] 2)How to i find memory, cpu information in freebsd, apart from TOP. In linux we have free and /pro/cpuinfo. I dont see any files under /proc You need to mount procfs on /proc to have files appear in /proc. However, you won't find cpuinfo in there,

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-08 Thread Deepak Naidu
i am using my yahoo a/c ... ya regarding xfs its only read only support in 6.0 and no support for 5.4 Thanx Deepak Naidu. --- Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepak Naidu sat at his 'puter and typed on 9/8/2005 16:55: Hey Subhro thanx for the info. I used Reiserfs in linux, bcos its

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Hepworth
On 9/8/05, Deepak Naidu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to migrate my mail servers from Fedora core 3 to FreeBSD 5.4, due to performance issue. Had few questions. 1)Which is the suitable filesystem ie UFS2, Ext2 etc... for mailing server. I used raiserfs in linux. Which File