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

Albert Cahalan
2004-08-27T16:38:38Z

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.

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.