On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:13:28AM -0700, Eduardo Horvath wrote:

 > > 2. Count time spent sleeping, waiting to be woken up, against the user's
 > > last PC before entering the kernel and increment for the full time spent
 > > sleeping.
 > 
 > Why do you want to count time spent sleeping waiting for an event against
 > the process?

It's not like you're counting it "against the process".  But profiling
is supposed to tell you where a process is spending its time, and if your
process is I/O bound, you want to know exactly how much time is spend in
those I/O routines.  We currently don't have that.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>