From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 11:42:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 11:42:35 -0400 Received: from weta.f00f.org ([203.167.249.89]:18320 "HELO weta.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 11:42:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 03:43:12 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: linux-kernel Subject: /proc//maps getting _VERY_ long Message-ID: <20010805034312.A18996@weta.f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Some time ago, the logic for merging VMAs was changing (simplified). I noticed a couple of applications, specifically things seemed a bit sluggish when running things that either grow slowly or use lots of shared libraries: cw:tty5@tapu(cw)$ wc -l /proc/1368/maps 5287 /proc/1368/maps it's totally unusual. Can anyone tell me why we don't merge such entries anymore? --cw