From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc reliability & performance
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:54:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031017075428.GC25291@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1066376402.4401.2.camel@titania.zlynx.org>
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:07, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> I created a process with 360 thousand threads,
>> went into the /proc/*/task directory, and did
>> a simple /bin/ls. It took over 9 minutes on a
>> nice fast Opteron.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:40:03AM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> Did you try using find instead of ls? ls loads all entries and then
> sorts them, so it can create an alphabetical display.
> Try using find. It will not take quite so long.
GNU ls has a -U flag that should come in handy.
-- wli
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-17 2:07 /proc reliability & performance Albert Cahalan
2003-10-17 2:34 ` Larry McVoy
2003-10-17 8:01 ` dada1
2003-10-17 9:10 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-17 14:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-17 17:24 ` dada1
2003-10-17 23:48 ` Albert Cahalan
2003-10-18 6:35 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-18 6:38 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-17 2:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-17 3:24 ` Brian McGroarty
2003-10-17 4:31 ` Albert Cahalan
2003-10-17 4:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-17 8:21 ` David Rees
2003-10-17 7:40 ` Zan Lynx
2003-10-17 7:54 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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