On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:10 -0800, Jay Lan wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > >Guillaume Thouvenin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> This patch adds a fork connector in the do_fork() routine. > >>... > >> > >> The fork connector is used by the Enhanced Linux System Accounting > >>project http://elsa.sourceforge.net > >> > >> > > > >Does it also meet all the in-kernel requirements for other accounting > >projects? > > > >If not, what else do those other projects need? > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > As the discussion in this thread of the past few days showed, this > patch intends to take care of process grouping, but not the > accounting data collection. Besides my concern of possibility of > data loss, this patch also provides CSA information to handle process > grouping as it intends to do. I plan to run some testing to see percentage > of data loss when system is under stress test, but improvement at > CBUS as Evgeniy indicated should help! > > Please be advised that i still need an do_exit handling to save accounting > data. But, it is a separate issue. My five copecks [or two cents]: fork connector with CBUS [with theirs upto 2.5 % degradation with huge disk writes per fork] are still much faster than any existing accounting models. But it is purely accounting project author to think about accounting design though... > Thanks, > - jay -- Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski
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