Re: top hogs CPU in 2.6: kallsyms_lookup is very slow

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thursday 16 September 2004 15:17, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Did the kallsyms patches reduce the cpu overhead from get_wchan()?

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:01:15PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Yes. top does not hog CPU anymore. It takes even a liitle bit *less*
> CPU than in 2.4 now.

Brilliant! Profile comparisons (merely booting the same kernels with
profile=2 or whatever shift you deem acceptable given that little RAM),
if feasible, would also be appreciated.

Thanks.


-- wli
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