Solaris kernel statistics with libkstat
The Solaris operating system kernel provides a set of functions and data structures for device drivers and other kernel modules to export module-specific statistics to the outside world. This infrastructure,is referred to as kstat, provided by they library - libkstat. The Solaris libkstat library contains the C-language functions for accessing kstats from an application. The following blog post demonstrates how the memory statistics could be gathered and consumed in a real-world situation. Detailed explanations are not available, but a the source code provided herewith and the references provided should suffice.
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11:42AM Nov 19, 2008
by mithun in Code Camp |