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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:13:00 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully slow /proc/net/tcp, netstat, in.identd in 2.4 (updated)
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
>    Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:04:34 -0400
>    
>    If the hash table was grown dynamically, I wouldn't have this complaint.
>    
> It's too expensive to implement.  It adds a new check every
> connection, _or_ some timer which periodically scans the chain
> lengths.

Then make it a sysctl.  Sysadmins exist for a reason. ;-)

		-ben