Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:17:03 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: ALLANC: Proposal to add progress records to process accounting |
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> will be written for any process that hasn't written a record in a while > (for our purposes, 24 hours is fine but it may be better to make this > configurable).
Agreed and this sounds sensible.
> too much overhead to the context switch (that's putting it mildly). I > assume this would be somewhere in kernel/sched.c/context_switch() or > kernel/sched.c/prepare_task_switch() although I haven't yet looked in great > detail.
Are you planning to update the log based upon wall time or cpu used ?
Alan
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