Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jan 2000 21:45:51 +0100 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl |
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 08:19:05PM +0100, Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> wrote: > > Incidentally, top only uses sycalls to access this information it requires > > (namely open/read/close ;) IT's just that it needs _hundresds_ or even > > _thousands_ of syscalls. > > The top included in the procps-suite (which is what commonly is used as top > on linux) uses the procps library, hence it uses the procfs.
Thanks for clarifying what I wrote!
> Even the "real" top has dropped sysctl support back when the kmem-ps > suite died and now uses almost exclusively lookups in /proc.
We all knew this already, don't we? ;)
> What was it what you wanted to prove?
That procps and procfs are dog slow (just read what I wrote). And (an enhanced) sysctl would provide for a far faster top!
Was it that that wasn't clear to you?
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