kstat documentation seems to be a total mess - or did I miss something ?

To find any info about the interpretation (!) of the kstat data

seems to be hopeless:

* man kstat describes the API and no more

* header documentation like in sysinfo.h is coarse

* example source code can hardly be found - the SymbEL

package does all relevant computation internally, and even

in the Sol8 source package useful code like vmstat.c is

missing

* recommended books like Cockcroft's 'Sun Performance and

Tuning' don't really cover the depths.

I'm sure lots of developers are frustrated with this situation.

Anyone found means to tackle this issue? I mean not only

coding isolated measurements like CPU% etc. but a complete

grasp of the major raw structures like sysinfo, cpu_stat, vmstat etc.

Cheers, Gunther

[826 byte] By [_gunther_] at [2007-11-14]