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Subject: Re: /proc reliability & performance
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:01:53 +0200
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From: "Larry McVoy" <lm@bitmover.com>
>
> And your real need for 360,000 threads is?
>
> I tend to believe that there are hundreds, nay, thousands, nay, 360
thousand
> better things to work on in the kernel.

Same problem here on some servers (real application), but with 280.000 tcp
sockets active.

A "cat /proc/net/tcp" takes too much time to even try it. :(

tools like "netstat" or "lsof", (even with -n flag) are just unusable.

Eric Dumazet