"Richard L. Hamilton" <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote: > You may want to reconsider the notion of merging them, unless a _lot_ of > work was done, and go with just having both, distinct, instead. ISTR > discussion > (Usenet?) of "top" being a pig with lots of processes, because it didn't hold > the > /proc/*/psinfo (or whatever) files open, but closed and reopened them each
BZW: what kind of general problems (e.g. from locking address space descriptions) do programs like top ans prstat cause? J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily