On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:35:21PM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:23:25PM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > > >>You know that file system name lookup is one of the most > >>expensive system calls under UNIX? > > > > > >stating the obvious is a clumsy rhetorical ploy (asking for agreement > >without > >making a point). > > The point is that this is one of the reasons why the top command in > question takes a lot of relative CPU time under Linux. Some > "faster" versions of procps utils try to cache data but the trade off > is simply the fact that the results are not 100% accurate. > I tought this was obvious?
too obvious. supposing that the application kept an open stream on the procps "file" and simply did a rewind. (That's assuming that procps was done "properly" - making it just like a real file ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
