Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:41:11 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information |
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On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 12:23, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I see no evidence that this will be a speedup with large numbers of >> processes, as the problematic algorithms are preserved wholesale.
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:37:40PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Well, as far as THAT goes, I thought your tree-based > lookup was nice. I assume you still have the code. > What we got instead was a sort of cached directory > offset computation, which looks great... until you > hit the bad case. I suggest that the people trying to > reduce latency should try "top -d 0 -b >> /dev/null" > while running something like the SDET benchmark.
I can resurrect that easily enough.
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