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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Rolf Fokkens wrote:
>> Since nobody else asks this question:
>> Do you mean to leave out process statistics?

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:47:38PM +0200, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> We don't need to leave out process statistics completely, but per-CPU 
> per-process statistics indeed looks like overkill.
> Tim
> P.S.: Some work with respect to cleaning up interfaces of 32 bit jiffies 
> has gone into -dj already, but I'm still waiting for the next -dj release 
> to sync up.


The per-cpu per-process stats are the only ones I suggest removing.
NR_CPUS can get large enough to cause a significant amount of bloat.


Cheers,
Bill
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