At 03:50 PM 5/3/00 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> We have DSL over frame relay customers with over 700 DLCIs on a T3 frame
>> line, and linux doesnt seem to like having 700 virtual interfaces very
>> much. With 900 channels, which is about the max per line, an ifconfig takes
>> about 3 seconds to return, and I assume its sorting through a linked
list....
>
>I dont think its sorting anything. It may be doing DNS lookups but I dont
>think so. It could also be user space inefficiencies
>
>What you may want to do firstly is to strace the process and see what
>syscalls are made a lot.
I'd think you'd know.
ifconfig etsa244
or any other ifconfig....now many calls should it be making?
Dennis
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