On Monday 19 October 2009 16:08:06 Rink Springer wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 03:52:30PM +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]
Just rate-limit the setproctitle() call to once/sec or once/percentage-step and be done with it. I must say that trying it out on a kernel build didn't proof too useful as the targets have vastly different runtimes, but I think it's a good addition nonetheless. So please, go for it Ivan. > 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... > -- /"\ Best regards, | mla...@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mla...@efnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
