On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a faster way to access "/proc/*" other than open it as a file and 
> reading/parsing contents? e.g. fopen("/proc/stat", "r");
> 
> In BSD, there is the kvm method of access, which is relatively fast (light 
> weight)
> 
> In Linux, if I have a daemon that keeps track of these statistics, it's a 
> hell way to manage.
> 
> Imagine, having to probe the stat of each process?

Have you looked at Task Stats (CONFIG_TASKSTATS)?

Cheers,
        -Matt Helsley

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