Re: /proc reliability & performance

[David S. Miller]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:01:53 +0200
"dada1" <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A "cat /proc/net/tcp" takes too much time to even try it. :(
> 
> tools like "netstat" or "lsof", (even with -n flag) are just unusable.

Because they don't use the netlink TCP socket dumping
facility which is made to handle such things much better
than procfs ever can.
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