Re: [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information

William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-27T16:41:55Z

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 12:23, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I see no evidence that this will be a speedup with large numbers of
>> processes, as the problematic algorithms are preserved wholesale.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:37:40PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Well, as far as THAT goes, I thought your tree-based
> lookup was nice. I assume you still have the code.
> What we got instead was a sort of cached directory
> offset computation, which looks great... until you
> hit the bad case. I suggest that the people trying to
> reduce latency should try "top -d 0 -b >> /dev/null"
> while running something like the SDET benchmark.

I can resurrect that easily enough.

-- wli