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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 02:55:11 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>
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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?!
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William Lee Irwin (WLI) writes:
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.

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:37:30PM +0300, Alex Tomas wrote:
> what about retreiving info from /proc/kmem or something like? just to 
> avoid binary -> text(proc) -> binary

That would also be an excellent userspace solution to this local DoS.


Bill
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