Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?! | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 18 Dec 2002 20:42:58 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:20, David Lang wrote: > Ok, I wasn't sure of the cause, but I've seen this as far back as 2.2 I > had a machine trying to run 2000 processes under 2.2 and 2.4.0 (after > upping the 2.2 kernel limit) and top would cost me ~40% throughput on the > machine (while claiming it was useing ~5% of the CPU)
Yah a lot of it is like William is saying... you just do not want to read multiple files for each process in /proc when you have a kajillion processes, and that is what top does. Over and over.
Work has gone into 2.5 to make this a lot better.. If you use threads with NPTL in 2.5, a lot of this is resolved, since the sub-threads will not show up in as /proc/#/ entries.
Robert Love
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