Quoting Alex Kozlov <s...@rm-rf.kiev.ua>:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:51:42PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:2009/10/19 Alex Kozlov <s...@rm-rf.kiev.ua>: > 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? You mean SIGINFO?Yes
Using SIGINFO sounds nice, but make produces so much output that normally you won't see the result because it is scrolled up just after sending the signal.
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