Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 02 Nov 1996 10:19:58 -0700 (MST) | From | Rob Riggs <> | Subject | Re: RFC: New kernel proc interface |
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On 02-Nov-96 alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: >> Besides, the data is cached only while the file is held open. >> When the file is closed, all that memory is freed. 3.2MB is >> a pitance today. Anyone that is using 40K routes can afford >> the US$12 for another 4MB. > >My gated monitor holds the file open continually.
For monitoring gated, would something on the order of /proc/net/route_log work better? I could work out the code to do logging to /proc. Would notification of routing changes work better than scanning the kernel routing tables? I'm not sure of what exactly your gated monitor does....
I just think there might be another way of looking at the problem.
>Its not even neccessarily compatibility thats an issue. We just need >a way to say 'Dont cache me Im potentially big', or for the code to >get a 32K block and then say "Stuff this Im not caching any more".
This should be easy to do, but does not solve the any problems. Might as well stay with the current 4K buffer. We might also try removing the need for huge proc files.
Are there any other potentially huge (>1MB) /proc/net files?
Rob (rriggs@tesser.com)
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