Re: top performance sucks (cpu cycles of course) :)

Mark H. Wood (mwood@mhw.OIT.IUPUI.EDU)
Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:34:18 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Rob Hagopian wrote:

> It's not very efficient becaue it uses /proc to get all of the info in
> human readable form, parses it, then displays it all again. There was talk
> at one point about putting all the data in a binary format too, but I
> haven't heard about it lately...

It's called sysctl(2). Someday I'll get disgusted enough to write a
sysctl()-based top etc. if nobody else does it first.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
One more time:  a (level-2) switch is a bridge.  A "level-3 switch" is
a router.  Deal with it.

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