Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Access to kmem - System namelist - 'ps' etc Message-ID: <1562@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 23:10:17 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1562 Posted: Tue Dec 4 23:10:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:14:25 EST References: <161@dido.UUCP> <129@heurikon.UUCP> <253@sara70.UUCP> <372@haring.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 9 Actually, I profiled ``ps'' to see why it was so slow. On 4.2BSD at least, ps aux spends the majority of its time in the stat() system call, poking through /dev to find all the tty numbers.... -- (This line accidently left nonblank.) In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (301) 454-7690 UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland