Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Any faster and more efficient way to repeatedly access /proc/* | From | Matthew Helsley <> | Date | Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:11:32 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:55 -0800, mchu@mirapoint.com wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a faster way to access "/proc/*" other than open it as a file and reading/parsing contents? e.g. fopen("/proc/stat", "r"); > > In BSD, there is the kvm method of access, which is relatively fast (light weight) > > In Linux, if I have a daemon that keeps track of these statistics, it's a hell way to manage. > > Imagine, having to probe the stat of each process?
Have you looked at Task Stats (CONFIG_TASKSTATS)?
Cheers, -Matt Helsley
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