> Some box with long uptime. init on it has been running since it
> was booted up. So it is likely to accumulate a lot pagefault over time.
> For example I have here this box with 484 days of uptime. Let say that
> tomorrow "the evil program" starts, It might it take a while before it
> accumulates more page faults than init. ... but I guess we don't need to
> worry about this scenarios since I think you talk about fault RATE not
> total faults.
That might be acceptable to some (probably most), but what happens if you
have a crontab scheduled to run in a few months? Crond would be
sleep()'ing 99.99% of the time and thusly acquire very very few page
faults.
I have no better ideas, though. :)
-MB
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