[CFR][CFT] counter(9): new API for faster and raceless counters

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Alfred Perlstein <alfred at ixsystems.com> writes:
> Here at iXsystems we've just developed a set of scripts to scrape the
> various FreeBSD user land utilities (sysctl, netstat, nfsstat, vmstat,
> etc, etc) and put them into graphs based on time.

in other words, you've reinvented Munin and Graphite?

> The only problem we have is that every user land tool has its own
> format, so along with my team we have written some shell to coerce the
> output from the various programs into pseudo-CSV (key/value pair)
> which can then be post processed by tools to convert to CSV which can
> then be put into something like open office, or put through an R
> program to graph it.

in other words, you've reinvented rrdtool?

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