Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

Scott Long schrieb: Ceri Davies wrote: On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:34:30AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Well, the real question is why we force the details of driver names onto users. Network and storage drivers are especially guilty of this, but tty devices also are annoying. How do you

Re: Real and Free Memory

Özkan KIRIK schrieb: # cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep real real memory = 268435456 (256 MB) # sysctl vm.vmtotal | grep Real Real Memory:(Total: 232792K Active 122448K) Real memory output from dmesg isn't the total amount of memory in the system, but only the highest address

Slow User-PPP

Hi, I noticed for some time now a relatively high CPU usage of the user level ppp even on slow links. On my ADSL line (768/128) ppp consumes up to 20% CPU time (AMD K6-2 300MHz). I trussed the process and noticed, that it calls getprotobynumber() for each packet it receives. In most cases, the

Re: number of processes forked since boot

Hajimu UMEMOTO schrieb: Hi, I wish to obtain number of processes forked since boot from userland. So, I made a patch to intend to commit. Any comment? I have done a similar approach. I was inspired by the "vmstat -s" output of Solaris. Therefor my solution was integrated into the vmmeter