Indeed. I had similar concerns when I implemented Hobbit for the first time. Although it shows up in more than one place, the author assured me that it is issued once (per cycle) and saved.
Marcy Cortes wrote:
Be careful what you do with a ps over and over. That's an expensive command. One app here tried that and ended up burning about 40MIPs continually. A wise coder told them to fork their process from a control process. When the child died, the parent would regain control and could report on it. Zero cycles used to do it that way. Marcy Cortes
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