Re: ALLANC: Proposal to add progress records to process accounting

[Alan Cox]

> 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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