> "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
With thousands of processes, and multiple instances of either of those programs running, they can eat quite a bit of CPU themselves, according to some stories out there. Haven't seen it personally, but even with a small number of processes, top is often the top CPU user, not quite so often the case with prstat. This message posted from opensolaris.org
