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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Access to kmem - System namelist - 'ps' etc
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 23:10:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 23:10:17 1984
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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....
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