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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:46:42 +0000
Subject: Re: Reading /proc/stat is slooow
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"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:42:49PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> At some point after 2.6.13 reading /proc/stat has become too slow.  This
>> is most visible with xosview, which spends up to 80% in kernel space.  I
>> have attached a simple program that you can run with "strace -r" to see

Actually I meant to use "strace -T", which displays the time spent _in_
the syscall.

Andreas.

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