Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 01:32:38 +0100
From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: u1_amd64@dslr.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: time cat /proc/*/statm ?
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:54:58 -0500, u1_amd64@dslr.net wrote:
> Is it reasonable for a 64bit dual cpu to take 5+ seconds of processing to
> cat /proc/*/statm when there is hardly more than 1gb of actual memory
> space used by processes (the rest being filesystem cache)?
> 
> This makes top or anything else that uses statm, unusable.

Why does top still read /proc/*/statm anyway? It's not as if top actually
ever used that information (the top I looked at at the time, that is). I
submitted a patch a few months ago to remove statm because it is a)
broken and b) redundant. The message containing detailed reasoning
should be in the linux-mm archives.

Roger
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