[Aften-devel] makes screen output less frequent

[Prakash P. <pr...@pu...>]

Hi,

on my system the screen output is that frequent that it actually slows down=
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encoding. Ingo Molnar (the kernel scheduler guy) basically found this out=20
while I showed him aften as a testcase.

He suggests following

"
yeah, once per second is usually more than enough, and the fastest way=20
to drive that is via a flag set by a once-per-second SIGALRM handler.=20
(which flag the printout function clears)
"

Does anybody know how to exactly do that and how to make it portable?

I know the poor man's solution would be just to skip x frames, but x should=
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determined on runtime, IMHO.

Ideas?

Cheers,
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