Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:03:44 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] shrink task_struct by removing per_cpu utime and stime |
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On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 08:09, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> These statistics severely bloat the task_struct and nothing in >> userspace can rely on them as they're conditional on CONFIG_SMP. If >> anyone is using them (or just wants them around), please speak up.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:11:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > User space can rely on them because it can check if the data is present. > Some of the graphical process monitors dump per cpu utime/stime. Its > sometimes a good way to cringe at our SMP balancing algorithms in 2.4
If that's a "no" I can deal with it. I'm just cringing at its space consumption and I guess we all know how oversensitive I am to that =).
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