From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932089AbWF3Iqt (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:46:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932146AbWF3Iqt (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:46:49 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:9960 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932089AbWF3Iqs (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:46:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:46:30 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Matt Helsley Cc: "Chandra S. Seetharaman" , LKML , Guillaume Thouvenin , Michael Kerrisk , Albert Cahalan Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Process events biarch bug: New process events connector value Message-ID: <20060630084630.GA27593@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20060627112644.804066367@localhost.localdomain> <1151408975.21787.1815.camel@stark> <1151435679.1412.16.camel@linuxchandra> <1151444382.21787.1858.camel@stark> <20060628055326.GB12276@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060628055326.GB12276@2ka.mipt.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.5 (2ka.mipt.ru [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:46:42 +0400 (MSD) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Albert Cahalan wrote: >I haven't yet seen a good explanation of what this is or does, >but I suspect it may be useful for the "top" program or for a >debugger. In either case, I am a highly interested party. >I maintain top as part of the procps package. People pay me to >hack on debuggers. >Mind pointing me to some documentation and an explanation of why >the feature was added? Is there a man page? (there should be) There are a lot of goodies for process accounting there. One can find initial draft with detailed description of the project goals at http://lwn.net/Articles/153694/ -- Evgeniy Polyakov