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DateSat, 1 Jan 2000 00:13:12 +0000
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
Hi!

> > > > It eats CPU, it's error-prone, and all in all it's just "wrong".
> > >
> > > How much of your CPU time is spent parsing /proc files?
> >
> > 30% of 486 if you run top... That's way too much and top is unusable
> > on slower machines.
> > "Not fast enough for showing processes" sounds wery wrong.
> 
> Is this time actually spent parsing ascii, or is it procfs
> walking all the page tables of all processes ? ;)

About 1:1, probably. Readdir of /proc and open/read/parse/close is 
pretty expensive.
								Pavel
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