Oddness with reading /proc/net/tcp

Oddness with reading /proc/net/tcp

[Witold Krecicki]

Reading data from /proc/net/tcp is slower with progress of reading data, 
tested on system with >200k active connections.

Sample code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
  struct timeval starttime, endtime;
  FILE * fd;
  char buf[1024*1024*4];
  int pk;
  fd=fopen("/proc/net/tcp","r");
  gettimeofday(&starttime,0);
  pk=0;
  while (!feof(fd) && pk<10000)
    {
      fread(buf, 1, 1024, fd);
      pk++;
      if (pk%512==0)
      {
        gettimeofday(&endtime,0);
        printf("%d %ld\n",pk, (endtime.tv_usec-starttime.tv_usec) 
+1000000*(endtime.tv_sec - starttime.tv_sec));
        gettimeofday(&starttime,0);
      }
    }
  fclose(fd);
  return 0;
}

Result:
$ time ./a.out
512 231781
1024 1057159
1536 1726530
2048 2474851
2560 3236269
3072 3856587
3584 3438862
4096 3108675
4608 3500559
5120 4090534
5632 4612594
6144 5135624
6656 5266945
7168 5491547
7680 6355916
8192 6661789
8704 7095428
9216 7565589
9728 7982981

real    1m27.347s
user    0m0.024s
sys     1m27.309s

Re: Oddness with reading /proc/net/tcp

[Eric Dumazet]

Witold Krecicki a écrit :
> Reading data from /proc/net/tcp is slower with progress of reading data, 
> tested on system with >200k active connections.
> 

Yes, this is a known problem.

This is O(N^2) algo.

Use ss from iproute package to get better performance... (less than 15 seconds 
  for 200k active connections)