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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.46-mm2
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:43:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021111074317.GL23425@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211110437.gAB4bPl390685@saturn.cs.uml.edu>

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:58:28AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> It could be the procps thing?  `tiobench --threads 256' shows
>> up as a single process in top and ps due to the new thread
>> consolidation feature. If you run `ps auxm' or hit 'H' in top,
>> all is revealed.  Not my fave feature that.

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:37:25PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> The feature is both buggy (both false consolidation and failure
> to consolidate) and slow. While I do eventually need to add the
> feature, I'm not doing so until it can be implemented properly.
> So go ahead and enjoy procps-3.1.0 without it:

This is not caused by userspace. This is a direct consequence of the
quadratic get_pid_list().


Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-11  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-11  4:37 2.5.46-mm2 Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-11  7:43 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-10  3:59 2.5.46-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-11-10 14:32 ` 2.5.46-mm2 Jens Axboe
2002-11-10 14:52   ` 2.5.46-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-10 14:57     ` 2.5.46-mm2 Jens Axboe
2002-11-10 15:06       ` 2.5.46-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-10 15:58         ` 2.5.46-mm2 Jens Axboe
2002-11-10 19:39           ` 2.5.46-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  1:18             ` 2.5.46-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-11  7:04             ` 2.5.46-mm2 Jens Axboe
2002-11-11  7:41               ` 2.5.46-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-10 16:58         ` 2.5.46-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-11-10 17:11           ` 2.5.46-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-10 23:10             ` 2.5.46-mm2 Toon van der Pas

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