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From: jak@sactoh0.UUCP (Jay A. Konigsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Getting CPU information on unterminatted child processes
Message-ID: <3699@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 12:20:12 GMT
References: <1990Aug7.215320.13715@mozart.amd.com> <3688@sactoh0.UUCP> <3879@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: jak@sactoh0.UUCP (Jay A. Konigsberg)
Organization: SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.
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In article <3879@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Getting information about kernel level data structures on the net is
>>a little like asking for the moon, no one seems to have it.
>
>No, it's more like asking for the moon if you're on Jupiter; the
>appropriate response is "which moon"?  Kernel-level data structures
>differ between different UNIX implementations.
>
This is true, however, the number of Sys V/Xenix and BSD/Sun systems
out there cover the majority of systems. That means there should be 
only two general answers with the detail left out. When _all_ systems
are included, the number of answers goes up. Still, it would be nice
to get more kernel data-structure information.

I saw a program once called "top". Basically, its a `ps -ef` listing
where the processes that are using the most CPU time are listed on
top. Nice program, the author had the info I (and others) are looking
for. I don't know if it was Sys V or BSD because it was on a two-universe
machine (amazing in itself).

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