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SubjectRe: time cat /proc/*/statm ?
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:54:58PM -0500, u1_amd64@dslr.net wrote:
> Is it reasonable for a 64bit dual cpu to take 5+ seconds of processing to
> cat /proc/*/statm when there is hardly more than 1gb of actual memory
> space used by processes (the rest being filesystem cache)?

Here on alpha, it takes 0.023s (0.011 sys) for 58 processes on 2.4.23.
Perhaps there's something specific to x86_64 ?

Willy

> # free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 16278356 16264484 13872 0 85400 14819932
> -/+ buffers/cache: 1359152 14919204
>
> # ps -eda|wc
> 216 866 6751
>
> # time cat /proc/*/statm
> :
> :
> :
> real 0m5.740s
> user 0m0.003s
> sys 0m5.521s
>
> # uname -a
>
> Linux silver 2.4.21-151-smp #22 SMP Mon Jan 5 21:31:07 PST 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> thanks!!
>
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