Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:31:24 -0400 | From | John Kacur <> | Subject | Request for info on proc system update frequency |
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I'm trying to understand how the proc file system works. In particular I'd like to know more about the algorithm by which the information is updated and how frequently. (Could it be too old for some purposes by the time it is read?)
I'm aware of the excellent proc.txt document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt and I know that the bulk of the source code is in fs/proc, but I would appreciate it if someone with more kernel knowledge than myself could point out which file, or where in the source code I should read to understand how often the information in the proc file system is updated.
The reason I'm trying to understand this, is that I want to profile processes (aka threads) for our jit compiler.
Thanks in advance
John Kacur jkacur@home.com jekacur@ca.ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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