Re: kernel patch for /proc/stat addition
AppleUni Author (ag784@freenet.buffalo.edu)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:30:21 -0400 (EDT)
>
> here, gimme some feedback on this idea
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:00:47 -0400 (EDT)
> From: James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>
> To: Phil Schwan <pschwan@apk.net>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: kernel patch for /proc/stat addition
>
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Phil Schwan wrote:
> > [...]
> > Feedback is appreciated, let me know what I'm doing wrong, if there's
> > something :) What sort of chance of getting into the kernel does this have?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > for (i = 0 ; i < NR_IRQS ; i++)
> > len += sprintf(buffer + len, " %u", kstat.interrupts[i]);
> > len += sprintf(buffer + len,
> > "\nctxt %u\n"
> > "btime %lu\n"
> > - "processes %lu\n",
> > + "processes %lu\n"
> > + "prstcnts %u %u %u %u %u %u\n",
> > kstat.context_swtch,
> > xtime.tv_sec - jiffies / HZ,
> > - total_forks);
> > + total_forks, running, sleeping, disk_sleep,
> > + zombie, stopped, paging);
> > return len;
> > }
>
> I would much prefer to output somthing like
> Running: 123
> Sleeping: 456
> Disk_sleep: 789
> Zombie: 123
> Stopped: 456
> Paging: 789
>
> That way we get that nice, readable "tag: val" pair that we argue so much
> about periodicly.
>
> -=- James Mastros
>
>
>
yes, but that also slows down the process of reading that information with
extra system calls... some may think it's trivial, but when you are doing a
real-time display as we are, it does matter. :-)
I don't see why we couldn't have the detailed one in another, seperate file
though...
Yours,
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