On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:00:38AM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > Hello! > > > Please think about it this way: > > suppose you haave a heavily loaded router and some network problem is to > > be diagnosed. You run tcpdump and suddenly router becomes overloaded (by > > switching to timestamp-it-all mode > > I am sorry. I cannot think that way. :-) > > Instead of attempts to scare, better resend original report, > where you said how much performance degraded, I cannot find it. > > * I do see get_offset_pmtmr() in top lines of profile. That's scary enough.
I had it at the very top line. > * I do not undestand what the hell dhcp needs timestamps for. > * I do not listen any suggestions to screw up tcpdump with a sysctl. > Kernel already implements much better thing then a sysctl. > Do not want timestamps? Fix tcpdump, add an options, submit the > patch to tcpdump maintainers. Not a big deal. OK, point taken. It's better to patch tcpdump. > > Alexey > ~ :wq With best regards, Vladimir Savkin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html