Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:37:22 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:44:12AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: >> Lastly, /sys seems to have over run even /proc. On an rx2600 (ia64): >> grundler@gsyprf3:/usr/src/linux-2.6$ find /sys ! -type d | wc >> 6288 6296 264893 > > Is this causing some kind of problem for your systems? > > /sys shows far more information than /proc does, so of course it would > be larger in quantity. >
Furthermore, it is actually structured as individual data items; a lot of /proc files are aggregate freeform data.
-hpa
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