perf improvement in get_process_info for Linux#322
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ZhidongPeng wants to merge 2 commits intoAzure:devfrom
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perf improvement in get_process_info for Linux#322ZhidongPeng wants to merge 2 commits intoAzure:devfrom
ZhidongPeng wants to merge 2 commits intoAzure:devfrom
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The
get_process_infofunction creates a brand new System::new_with_specifics for every single process lookup. This is extremely inefficient because:System::new_with_specificswithRefreshKind::new().with_processes(...)scans the entire proc filesystem to enumerate ALL processesThe fix is to replace the
sysinfo::Systemapproach with direct/proc/{pid}/reads, which is much more efficient since we only need to read information for a specific PID, not scan all processes.Improvement:
Before fix: Captured 3493 samples (0.590 MB)
After fix: Captured 121 samples (0.049 MB)