Display files currently in the buffer cache

[Eric Anderson]

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Dear hackers,
> 
> I'm interested in being able to display some data about the contents of 
> the buffer cache , say file name and page offset (something like IRIX's 
> 'bufview').
> 
> Is there any utilities that do this currently? (searched around but 
> didn't see anything in ports).
> 
> Assuming not, is it feasible to write one to do this? (if so, any 
> pointers appreciated - massive FreeBSD internals newbie here....).

This would be a cool tool!  I've been thinking of that too, and also 
would like to have a lkdump tool - which dumps information about 
currently locked files.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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