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

Martin J. Bligh
2002-12-19T15:20:07Z

> WLI> As userspace solutions go your suggestions is just as good. The
> WLI> kernel still needs to get its act together and with some
> WLI> urgency.
>
> what about retreiving info from /proc/kmem or something like? just to
> avoid binary -> text(proc) -> binary

The binary <-> text translation problem is less of an issue than all the
syscall traffic, dcache hits, etc. Search linux-kernel archives for a
recent thread entitiled "ps performance sucks" or something similar.

M.