On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:09:57 -0500, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > Hello, Is it really necessary to do it in kernel? Wouldn't it be possible to gather statistics per-process (using bsd process accounting or just polling info in /proc) and then aggregate them? > For a new project I need to implement a mechanism that will allow me to gather > process together according to a user choice. For example, here is a list of > running process: > > USER ID COMMAND > thouveng 345 gnome-session > thouveng 348 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.gnome > thouveng 413 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 11 > thouveng 456 /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate > thouveng 467 metacity --sm-save-file 1080547315-1211-2058173655.ms > thouveng 556 gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-ior-fd=14 > thouveng 560 xscreensaver -nosplash > > I want to be able to group together process with ID 467 and 560 in order to > study how those processes use resources on the system. > > So, an idea is to add a new structure to store them and a new module to > manipulate those new "container". > > Before do it myself, I'd like to know if this already exist. I do web search and > I find the PAGG (Process Aggregate) project which is very close to what I need. > I tried it but when I booted the new kernel, the memory usage was always above > 40%... I don't know if it's because of the patch (which is dated from nov 7 > 2002) but this strange behavior pushed me to look for other solutions. > > Thanks for your help > Guillaume > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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