Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?!

William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19T10:23:07Z

On 19 December 2002 00:05, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Well, a better solution would be a userspace free of /proc/
>> dependency.
>> Or actually fixing the kernel. proc_pid_readdir() wants an
>> efficiently indexable linear list, e.g. TAOCP's 6.2.3 "Linear List
>> Representation". At that point its expense is proportional to the
>> buffer size and "seeking" about the list as it is wont to do is
>> O(lg(processes)).

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:05:03PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> A short-time solution: run top d 30 to make it refresh only every 30 seconds.
> This will greatly reduce top's own load skew.

As userspace solutions go your suggestions is just as good. The kernel
still needs to get its act together and with some urgency.

Bill