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From: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>
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Subject: procFS performance
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         Why procfs-related apps eats so much performance?
   for example - top eats 4.1% of p166 cpu. Also they seem to be a cause
   for big latencies...
      is this sane?