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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Chandra S. Seetharaman" <sekharan@us.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>,
	Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@gmx.net>,
	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Process events biarch bug: New process events connector value
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:46:30 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060630084630.GA27593@2ka.mipt.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060628055326.GB12276@2ka.mipt.ru>

Albert Cahalan wrote:
>I haven't yet seen a good explanation of what this is or does,
>but I suspect it may be useful for the "top" program or for a
>debugger. In either case, I am a highly interested party.
>I maintain top as part of the procps package. People pay me to
>hack on debuggers.

>Mind pointing me to some documentation and an explanation of why
>the feature was added? Is there a man page? (there should be)

There are a lot of goodies for process accounting there.
One can find initial draft with detailed description of the project 
goals at http://lwn.net/Articles/153694/

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-30  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060627112644.804066367@localhost.localdomain>
2006-06-27 11:47 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Process events biarch bug: Name process event data union type and annotate for compatibility Matt Helsley
2006-06-27 11:48 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] Process events biarch bug: Process events timestamp bug Matt Helsley
2006-06-27 11:49 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Process events biarch bug: New process events connector value Matt Helsley
2006-06-27 19:14   ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-06-27 21:39     ` Matt Helsley
2006-06-27 23:54       ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-06-28  1:29         ` Matt Helsley
2006-06-28  5:53       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-30  8:46         ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2006-06-28  6:00 Albert Cahalan

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