Re: /proc reliability & performance
From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 09:47:26 EST
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:10:40 PDT, "David S. Miller" said:
> > 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.
The netlink TCP socked dumping facility will also provide the
"open files" list of *non* sockets that lsof wants?
Not all the world's a TCP connection....
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