Re: /proc/nzombies

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 07:11:02 EST


> If I do a zombie count in userland every 5 minutes, the number of cycles
> this is going to burn is tremendously larger than performing the count
> inline in exit().

However that doesnt interfere with the 99.9999999999999% of the rest of us
who don't give two hoots about your zombie count, putting it in a mainstream
kernel does.

Alan

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