On 12/11/2017 04:46 PM, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> This allows us to measure the maximum field length for each
> column before printing fields and will permit us to apply
> optimal field spacing and distribution. Structure of the output
> buffer with chunked allocation is described in comments.
>
> Output is still unchanged, original spacing is used.
>
> Running over one million sockets with -tul options by simply
> modifying main() to loop 50,000 times over the *_show()
> functions, buffering the whole output and rendering it at the
> end, with 10 UDP sockets, 10 TCP sockets, while throwing
> output away, doesn't show significant changes in execution time
> on my laptop with an Intel i7-6600U CPU:
>
> - before this patch:
> $ time ./ss -tul > /dev/null
> real 0m29.899s
> user 0m2.017s
> sys 0m27.801s
>
> - after this patch:
> $ time ./ss -tul > /dev/null
> real 0m29.827s
> user 0m1.942s
> sys 0m27.812s
>
I do not get it.
"ss -emoi " uses almost 1KB per socket.
10,000,000 sockets -> we need about 10GB of memory ???
This is a serious regression.