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procps
Finally merged the procps performance enhancements Red Hat (primarily alex) wrote:
- do not qsort the process list if we are not sorting
- read tgid from /proc/pid/status if it exists
- PROC_SKIPTHREADS flag for ps_readproc() to force only reading of (tgid != pid) to avoid lots of syscalls
- Look at flags in ps_readproc() to avoid reading /proc files files that are not needed.
- Support FILLMEM, FILLCMD, FILLENV, FILLWCHAN for above.
O(1) scheduler
Turns out Linus's keen interactivity backboost hack is not all so keen -- it caused a severe starvation issue in some odd loads, primarily with setiathome. It was backed out in 2.5.67. Ah well.
Camera
The Canon 10D is turning out to be one of the best purchases I have made in some time. I truly enjoy it. Now if only I can find a reason to still use my beloved 35mm...