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Jim Warner 95d0136281 library: dynamic buffer management even more efficient
One recent patch to dynamic buffer management involved
over-allocating the buffer increase to lessen calls to
xrealloc. That was successful, but the actual increase
amount did not attempt to optimize size or alignments.

With this commit, we'll copy an approach recently used
by the top program and round up buffer sizes to 1 KiB.
More importantly, while buffers are quickly reaching a
KiB optimum multiple, no memcpy will ever be employed!

To illustrate just how effective top's algorithm would
be, just change the initial and subsequent allocations
from the current 1024 bytes to just a single byte then
add an fprintf.  Those one byte reallocations while on
the way to optimum buffer size will be a one-time cost
and won't represent any recurring performance penalty.

( gosh, that top program *must be* one fart smeller, )
( or was that a smart feller, i can't remember which )

Reference)s):
commit 6d605f521c
commit a45dace4b8

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2013-04-24 08:29:22 +10:00
contrib miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
Documentation miscellaneous: fixed current misspell-check's findings 2013-03-14 12:36:47 +01:00
include configure: Check for error.h 2013-03-20 16:32:06 +01:00
lib configure: Check for error.h 2013-03-20 16:32:06 +01:00
misc build-sys: rename the 'tools' subdirectory to 'misc' 2012-03-02 21:25:38 +11:00
po build-sys: use Makevars --add-comments= to limit .pot comments 2011-12-20 17:30:52 +01:00
proc library: dynamic buffer management even more efficient 2013-04-24 08:29:22 +10:00
ps Fixed warning about error_at_line 2013-03-26 21:27:38 +11:00
testsuite Improved regexp test for pmap 2013-04-07 18:31:26 +10:00
top top: snapshot /proc/stat reads to minimize distortions 2013-04-24 08:29:22 +10:00
.gitignore Added pmap -X and -XX tests 2012-12-24 10:05:24 +11:00
AUTHORS other: make AUTHORS file obsolete 2012-01-13 22:42:38 +01:00
autogen.sh Fix a remaining util-linux word in autogen 2012-02-26 08:39:16 +11:00
ChangeLog other: tell in ChangeLog where to see changes 2012-01-13 22:42:38 +01:00
configure.ac build-sys: in top program, enable NUMA/Node extensions 2013-04-14 22:28:42 +10:00
COPYING license: update FSF addresses 2012-03-04 08:04:24 +11:00
COPYING.LIB miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
free.1 miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace throughout 2013-03-14 12:36:47 +01:00
free.c configure: check for program_invocation_name 2013-03-20 16:32:06 +01:00
kill.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
Makefile.am fix sysctl.conf inclusion in dist tarballs 2012-10-31 22:42:03 +11:00
NEWS top: documentation update, enable NUMA/Node extensions 2013-04-14 22:21:41 +10:00
pgrep.1 support for listing thread ids (useful with iotop) 2013-03-18 11:58:47 +01:00
pgrep.c miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
pkill.1 procps 010114 2002-02-01 22:47:29 +00:00
pmap.1 Two new options for pmap, -X and -XX 2012-09-27 22:08:04 +10:00
pmap.c Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/10' of git://gitorious.org/procps/procps into merge-requests/10 2013-04-07 17:58:06 +10:00
pwdx.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
pwdx.c configure: check for program_invocation_name 2013-03-20 16:32:06 +01:00
README docs: add how to contribute to README 2012-03-03 18:28:52 +11:00
skill.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
skill.c configure: check for program_invocation_name 2013-03-20 16:32:06 +01:00
slabtop.1 miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace throughout 2013-03-14 12:36:47 +01:00
slabtop.c miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
snice.1 procps 010114 2002-02-01 22:47:29 +00:00
sysctl.8 miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace throughout 2013-03-14 12:36:47 +01:00
sysctl.c Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/10' of git://gitorious.org/procps/procps into merge-requests/10 2013-04-07 17:58:06 +10:00
sysctl.conf docs: remove tcp_default_win_scale from sysctl.conf sample 2012-01-24 22:34:12 +01:00
sysctl.conf.5 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
tload.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
tload.c miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
uptime.1 uptime: add since option 2012-12-26 23:14:09 +11:00
uptime.c configure: check for program_invocation_name 2013-03-20 16:32:06 +01:00
vmstat.8 Minor fix with vmstat manpage for r column 2012-05-30 21:41:17 +10:00
vmstat.c configure: check for program_invocation_name 2013-03-20 16:32:06 +01:00
w.1 Add -i option to w 2012-05-29 22:20:36 +10:00
w.c miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
watch.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
watch.c watch: Remove unused header 2013-03-20 16:32:06 +01:00

COMPATIBILITY

    This code is intended for use with Linux 2.6.xx, 3.x and
    hopefully all future kernels.

INSTALLATION

    If you are using git version of the project you need extra step.

    ./autogen.sh

    After that, and everyone using .tar.xz version of procps-ng, can
    do normal build.  Read './configure --help' to select options for
    your needs.

    ./configure
    make
    make install

    If you have DejaGNU installed you can run optional test suite.

    make check

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

    See Documentation/BUGS file.

PACKAGING

    If you are a downstream maintainer (packager) for a Linux
    distribution, please avoid causing troubles.  This section
    applies to you.

    Avoid maintaining distribution specific patches.  Send your
    patches to upstream, where they are at least reviewed, if not
    included.

    Please forward bug reports. If your bug database is public and
    busy enough to bother with, please make this known.  Follow
    Debian's lead in making the bug database easy to comment on via
    email without need for an account.

    For normal packages, ensure that you do not add debugging flags
    to the CFLAGS variable.

UPSTREAM & BUG REPORTS

    procps-ng <procps@freelists.org>