Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:41:35 +0300 From: Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua Subject: Re: Make process title - % complete Message-ID: <20091019144135.GA91918@ravenloft.kiev.ua>
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:35:08PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> if nobody objects, I'll commit it :) > > > > I seem to recall that setproctitle() is quite expensive to call; perhaps > > it would make sense offer a flag to prevent make(1) from calling it? [1] > > > > Anyway, the feature looks nice! I'd like to have it... > > > > [1] I'm unsure how expensive it is compared to fork(1)-ing etc; I'd > > expect it's negligable but who knows... > > The loop it's called in is not processed bazillion times per second > (though it *is* called surprisingly often; small, fast jobs can result > in somewhere in the order of magnitude of 100 iterations per second on > a fast CPU). As you said - I expect it's negligable compared to fork() > and the work jobs themselves do. How about add this statistic to make info handler? -- Adios
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