Re: KVM (kernel memory interface)

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:43:36PM -0400, Stewart Flood wrote:
> Greetings...
> 
> I'm starting a project to port a very large application from FreeBSD to
> Debian.  I've gotten past some of the initial porting issues, but I'm stuck
> on this one:  under FreeBSD we used the kernel memory interface (KVM), but
> Debian doesn't seem to have kvm.h and I can't find a man page on it.
> 
> Is there a package that I need to install?  If not, what do I use to get the
> functionality of KVM?
> 
I don't know the answer to this, but I might be able to jog someones
memory.

The kvm interface in the BSD's is used to collect things like process
information etc.

How is that done in Linux?

I'm talking about the kind of info that top shows.

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