10.1. The performance status (Perfstat) API
The Perfstat API is a collection of C programming language subroutines that execute in user space and extract data from the perfstat kernel extension (kex) to obtain statistics. This API is available in AIX 5L.
The Perstat API enabled the developers to write a performance monitoring application with simple and consistent interface. Before Perfstat API, developers were supposed to manipulate various structures and calls in their own code. Without perfstat API, you were supposed to manipulate kernel memory interface (“/dev/kmem”) directly. This also required that you have a good understanding about kernel data structures and related subroutines.
Now, with Perfstat API, all of these functions are integrated ...
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