> On 10 Sep, 2018, at 05:50, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > It's not going to be the simplest first port (it will need actual code > porting, rather than just writing ports Makefile etc).
Yeah, I’ve already run into a few of these. > Many of the Linux-ish plugins use procfs which isn't very helpful - > the FreeBSD code is going to be closer but we don't have the > GETSYSCTL_BY_NAME/GETSYSCTL_SIMPLE interfaces, these need changing to > use sysctl(2). > > You probably want to refer to /usr/src/usr.bin/top while looking at > this. Thanks for these tips! I haven’t yet made it to the FreeBSD plugin, but the source for top has offered a few hints in other places. Upstream also seems to be quite excited to have an OpenBSD port (or really ports to any other platform), which is great news! https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/601
