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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:24:34 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 15000+ processes -- poor performance ?!
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>  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.
>
> what about retreiving info from /proc/kmem or something like? just to
> avoid binary -> text(proc) -> binary

The binary <-> text translation problem is less of an issue than all the
syscall traffic, dcache hits, etc. Search linux-kernel archives for a
recent thread entitiled "ps performance sucks" or something similar.

M.

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