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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>,
	Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, Till Immanuel Patzschke <tip@inw.de>,
	lse-tech <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?!
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:24:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14620000.1040311472@titus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3u1hapa51.fsf@lexa.home.net>

>  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.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-19 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-19  0:46 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?! Till Immanuel Patzschke
2002-12-19  0:47 ` [Lse-tech] " Martin J. Bligh
2002-12-19  0:53 ` Till Immanuel Patzschke
2002-12-19  1:15   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19  1:12     ` David Lang
2002-12-19  1:25       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19  1:20         ` David Lang
2002-12-19  1:36           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19  1:42           ` Robert Love
2002-12-19  1:44             ` David Lang
2002-12-19  2:05               ` [Lse-tech] " William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19 15:05                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-12-19 10:27                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19 10:37                     ` Alex Tomas
2002-12-19 10:55                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19 15:24                       ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-12-19 15:15                     ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-12-19  1:24     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19  0:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-19  1:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-19 14:59 ` Denis Vlasenko

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