Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:55:40 -0500 | From | Daniel Jacobowitz <> | Subject | Re: [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62 |
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:47:15PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302201656030.30000-100000@localhost.localdomain>, > Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > >the fix for this is two-fold. First, it must be possible for procps to > >separate 'threads' from 'processes' without having to go into 16 thousand > >directories. I solved this by prefixing 'threads' (ie. non-group-leader > >threads) with a dot ('.') character in the /proc listing: > > Why not put threads belonging to a thread group into /proc/17072/threads ?
I'm also inclined to think this is a good idea. We could even choose to use /proc/17072/lwp, to match Solaris, but it's probably not worth it since the semantics are different.
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