Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Aug 2002 01:31:00 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: statm_pgd_range() sucks! |
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At some point in the past, I wrote: >> Okay, I have *had it* with statm_pgd_range()!
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:24:56PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > On a related note, it would be nice if procps would not parse things it > doesnt need: > strace ps 2>&1 | grep open | grep '/proc' > open("/proc/12467/stat", O_RDONLY) = 7 > open("/proc/12467/statm", O_RDONLY) = 7 > open("/proc/12467/status", O_RDONLY) = 7 > open("/proc/12467/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 7 > open("/proc/12467/environ", O_RDONLY) = 7 > It always opens statm even when its not required. > Anton
Userspace is FITH, it only needs to do it for BSD-style stuff reporting RSS/vsz. vsz is wrong anyway if it doesn't open /proc/$PID/maps.
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