Re: [announce/OT] kerneltop ver. 0.7

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:55:42 +1000 Cef (LKML) wrote:

| On Mon, 24 May 2004 15:31, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
| > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 09:50:27PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > > just a little note about kerneltop...
| > > 'kerneltop' is similar to 'top', but shows only kernel function usage
| > > (modules not included).
| > > I have updated it a bit (now version 0.7) and made sure that it
| > > works OK on Linux 2.6.x.
| > > It's available here:
| > > 	http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kerneltop/
| >
| > GRRR.. this tries to reset /proc/profile. Multiple megabytes of in-
| > kernel memset() at a frequency of 1Hz are extremely unfriendly.
| 
| Following patch primes the buffer first time round (avoids huge total_ticks on 
| first pass) and moves total_ticks to the end of the field header bar, saving 
| an output line for useful data.
| 
| PS: If this keeps going, we should probably take this off-list or move to 
| somewhere appropriate.

I applied the total_ticks heading change.  Still thinking about the
first-pass-priming-the-pump change.  It's not a big deal either way IMO.

| For clarity, you might want to invert the "address  function ....." line to 
| separate the header from the actual displayed data (like top does).

Done.

Still considering your other suggestions.  Thanks.

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~Randy