From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [proc.txt] Fix /proc/pid/statm documentation
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:48:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806164858.GM17188@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091800948.1231.2454.camel@cube>
Roger Luethi writes:
>> Most of the current problems with proc are related to tools: They don't
>> like changes and some of them are very sensitive to resource usage
>> (because they may make hundreds of calls per second on typical systems).
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:02:28AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Make that 2000 /proc reads per second or more. This is too slow.
> I need to read about 1 million /proc files per second.
This is a truly terrifying prospect. The vfs overheads of manipulating
that much metadata is unthinkably enormous, not to mention the very
real tasklist_lock starvation issues killing boxen dead now.
By any chance could a rate-limited incremental algorithm be used,
at least for top(1)?
-- wli
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1091754711.1231.2388.camel@cube>
[not found] ` <20040806094037.GB11358@k3.hellgate.ch>
[not found] ` <20040806104630.GA17188@holomorphy.com>
2004-08-06 12:01 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 12:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 13:57 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 15:02 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:02 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 16:48 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-08-06 17:08 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 15:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 20:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 18:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 21:15 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-07 17:37 ` Paul Jackson
2004-08-06 12:58 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 15:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 14:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 16:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-06 16:34 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-06 14:51 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-06 17:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-06 18:21 ` Roger Luethi
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