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DateThu, 19 Dec 2002 07:24:34 -0800
From"Martin J. Bligh" <>
SubjectRe: [Lse-tech] Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?!
>  WLI> As userspace solutions go your suggestions is just as good. The
>  WLI> kernel still needs to get its act together and with some
>  WLI> urgency.
>
> what about retreiving info from /proc/kmem or something like? just to
> avoid binary -> text(proc) -> binary

The binary <-> text translation problem is less of an issue than all the
syscall traffic, dcache hits, etc. Search linux-kernel archives for a
recent thread entitiled "ps performance sucks" or something similar.

M.

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