Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263275AbTKEX5t (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:57:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263281AbTKEX5s (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:57:48 -0500 Received: from mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.212]:53977 "EHLO mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263275AbTKEX5s (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:57:48 -0500 From: Peter Chubb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16297.36426.396431.533422@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:56:58 +1100 To: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [DMESG] cpumask_t in action In-Reply-To: <20031105224936.GA24431@sgi.com> References: <20031105222202.GA24119@sgi.com> <20031105224936.GA24431@sgi.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v04.18. X-Face: GgFg(Z>fx((4\32hvXq<)|jndSniCH~~$D)Ka:P@e@JR1P%Vr}EwUdfwf-4j\rUs#JR{'h# !]])6%Jh~b$VA|ALhnpPiHu[-x~@<"@Iv&|%R)Fq[[,(&Z'O)Q)xCqe1\M[F8#9l8~}#u$S$Rm`S9% \'T@`:&8>Sb*c5d'=eDYI&GF`+t[LfDH="MP5rwOO]w>ALi7'=QJHz&y&C&TE_3j! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 18 >>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse Barnes writes: Jesse> We also have a large number of per-cpu and per-node Jesse> processes... Do you find /proc a bottleneck with this number of processes? It would seem to me that scanning /proc and opening/reading/closing all those /proc/pid/stat, /proc/pid/status and /proc/pid/cmdline files would take a long time. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/