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Subject: Re: /proc reliability & performance
From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
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On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:10, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:01:53 +0200
> "dada1" <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Because they don't use the netlink TCP socket dumping
> facility which is made to handle such things much better
> than procfs ever can.

That's an accepted way to do things? Oh cool.
We just need a netlink process info dumping
facility...