Well, you are right (and top has the same problem if not worse), but I'm always surprised what these tools are doing that they take significat CPU time. Parsing 200 virtual text files every second for sure should not.
> Or even better to provide specific syscalls for it like on macOS, Windows, OpenBSD, Solaris and others.
> Or even better to provide specific syscalls for it like on macOS, Windows, OpenBSD, Solaris and others.
top manages to take 6% CPU on my Macbook.