"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

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