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Date:      Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:23:25 +0200
From:      Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>
To:        Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        dickey@herndon4.his.com
Subject:   Re: /dev/shm
Message-ID:  <3F09663D.9020200@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3el12lf91.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
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Matthias Andree wrote:
> Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>There isn't much either Solaris /proc or FresBSD /proc have in common with
>>what Linux calls /proc. And finally on my FreeBSD box -
>>kozaczek# mount
>>/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>>devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
>>kozaczek# top
>>
>>And top doesn't eat tons of CPU time there like it does on Linux.
> 
> 
> Update your Linux top or run fewer processes on it then. :->

You know that file system name lookup is one of the most
expensive system calls under UNIX?




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