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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:00:31 +0100
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:51:57 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 18:49 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > > To what purpose? 
> >  
> > Is that a trick question? Why do we have tools like "top"? Or process
> > accounting? The point is that the quality of the numbers we get right
> > now is rather bad, the overhead of scanning /proc is horrendous and
> > the 10ms granularity is rather coarse. 
> 
> But you're not just replacing top, you're adding all kinds of new
> accounting crap all over the place.

We DO replace top. Patch #7 of 7.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.