Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACB89FB9F5 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 20:40:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87510-03 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 20:40:00 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from mail.net-domino.com (www.net-domino.com [74.208.11.96]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF799FB9C2 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 20:40:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (u15245314.onlinehome-server.com [74.208.11.96]) by mail.net-domino.com (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l41NdnnJ012998 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 19:39:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4637CFF7.7020000@mochima.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 19:40:39 -0400 From: Carlos Moreno User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning References: <200704271059.50265.josh@agliodbs.com> <200705010923.47951.josh@agliodbs.com> In-Reply-To: <200705010923.47951.josh@agliodbs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Added-Header: Sample_milter accepted message X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/5 X-Sequence-Number: 24395 > large problem from a slog perspective; there is no standard way even within > Linux to describe CPUs, for example. Collecting available disk space > information is even worse. So I'd like some help on this portion. > Quite likely, naiveness follows... But, aren't things like /proc/cpuinfo , /proc/meminfo, /proc/partitions / /proc/diskstats standard, at the very least across Linux distros? I'm not familiar with BSD or other Unix flavours, but I would expect these (or their equivalent) to exist in those, no? Am I just being naive? Carlos --