On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes. The silly thing is, at least in my local tests it doesn't > actually seem to be _doing_ anything while it's slow (there are no > system calls except for a few memory allocations and > de-allocations). It seems to have some exponential function on the > number of pathnames involved etc.
I see lots of brk calls changing the heap size, up, down, up, down, over and over. This smells a bit like c++ new/delete behavior to me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/