[collectd] cpu module and saving jiffies / OpenBSD

[Florian Forster]

Hi again..

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:39:28PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> Not only it confuses some users, but using jiffies (or whatever the
> equivalent is) just plainly does not work well on OpenBSD.

Why?

> libstatgrab, which has to be used on OpenBSD for collecting these
> values, ...

The CPU plugin uses `sysctlbyname' which, apparently, is a FreeBSD
thing. OpenBSD and NetBSD apparently use `sysctl' for that. If you want
I can try to add that to the plugin, but I cannot test it. I'd need your
help for that..

Regards,
-octo
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