> Hard to say. 'ps' gives some great information about cpu/memory usage
> that may be hard/costly to put in shared memory. One idea should be to
> issue periodic 'ps/kill' commands though a telnet/ssh pipe to the
> remote machine, or just to the remote X display option.
>
> Of course, getrusage() gives us much of that information.
Forget getrusage(). Only works on current process, so each backend
would have to update its own statistics. Sounds expensive.
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