Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:05:06 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl |
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Hi!
> >That procps and procfs are dog slow (just read what I wrote). And (an > >enhanced) sysctl would provide for a far faster top! > > Admittedly, in the case where you start top and lean on the spacebar > it would be faster, but it seems like having top refresh 30+ times a > second would be wasting 29+ of those refreshes. > > On my build machine (which, admittedly, is one of my K7s, so the > figures are a bit skewed) top[+], when refreshing every second, > takes 0.99% of the processor. And on the Celeron/338 I'm using as a > workstation, it takes a princely .098% to do the same.
Probably not true, kernel cpu usage metters like to lie for exactly this kind of applications. Hold spacebar. If you are right, it should eat 30% of cpu, then. It does not. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents me at discuss@linmodems.org
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