Re: Awfully slow /proc/net/tcp, netstat, in.identd in 2.4 (updated)

[Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:59:24PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> And, for a 640MB ram machine, a 4MB hash table is perfectly
> reasonable.

That isn't wholly true.  A 4MB hash table can never fit in the cache of 
an Athlon, and for one that's being used as a workstation with 1GB of 
ram and maybe 60 connections active on average, that's a huge waste of 
ram, and a guarantee that there will be lots of cache misses which just 
aren't required.  Keep the cache footprint as low as possible -- it 
results in a system that performs better.

		-ben