From: Federico Giannici (giannicineomedia.it)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 03:39:17 CDT

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Stephen Takacs wrote:
>> Instead of compiling a custom kernel, what is the best way (in Perl) to
>> get the list of current processes?
>
>> I have to scan the list every few seconds. A couple of years ago, I
>> tried executing an external "ps", but found that it sometimes "freezed".
>> I found the scanning of the "/proc" filesystem much more stable...
>
> Perhaps a buffering issue? Try setting $| to a true value, if you
> haven't already done that.

The problem with using "ps" is that I'd like to avoid spawning new
processes as it should run in high load situations too...

Bye.

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