Hi!
> >That procps and procfs are dog slow (just read what I wrote). And (an
> >enhanced) sysctl would provide for a far faster top!
>
> Admittedly, in the case where you start top and lean on the spacebar
> it would be faster, but it seems like having top refresh 30+ times a
> second would be wasting 29+ of those refreshes.
>
> On my build machine (which, admittedly, is one of my K7s, so the
> figures are a bit skewed) top[+], when refreshing every second,
> takes 0.99% of the processor. And on the Celeron/338 I'm using as a
> workstation, it takes a princely .098% to do the same.
Probably not true, kernel cpu usage metters like to lie for exactly
this kind of applications. Hold spacebar. If you are right, it should
eat 30% of cpu, then. It does not.
Pavel
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