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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
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Hi!

> > It eats CPU, it's error-prone, and all in all it's just "wrong".
> 
> How much of your CPU time is spent parsing /proc files?

30% of 486 if you run top... That's way too much and top is unusable on slower
machines. 
"Not fast enough for showing processes" sounds wery wrong.
								Pavel
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