Closed tschuy closed 7 years ago
Closes #60.
As far as I can tell, we don't currently collect the uptime. It's not a particularly expensive syscall to just grab /proc/uptime: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/5924bbecd0267d87c24110cbe2041b5075173a25/fs/proc/uptime.c
/proc/uptime
tschuy@tschuy:(mayday)(uptime) → cat test.c #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { int i; FILE * fp; for (i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { fp=fopen("/proc/uptime", "r"); fclose(fp); } return 0; } tschuy@tschuy:(mayday)(uptime) → time ./getuptime real 0m3.516s user 0m0.257s sys 0m3.250s
3.5 microseconds per read for uptime, and very similar timing for loadavg.
Closes #60.
As far as I can tell, we don't currently collect the uptime. It's not a particularly expensive syscall to just grab
/proc/uptime
: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/5924bbecd0267d87c24110cbe2041b5075173a25/fs/proc/uptime.c3.5 microseconds per read for uptime, and very similar timing for loadavg.