From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 01:31:25 -0700 So, for the record, is 44 seconds on a high-end machine acceptable for ifconfig -a on 4000 interfaces? It doesn't bother me enough to re-write a patch that will never be accepted, but if it were my code, I'd change it to make it faster :) You showed 'ip' can do it in 5, 5 is certainly acceptable :-) ifconfig can be implemented in terms of 'ip' (I thought most dists were doing this already too) so it's basically a moot point what ifconfig can do. BTW what kind of tty did you send the output too? Maybe retry with /dev/null :-) And if you list 4000 interfaces, what are you going to do with the output? Read it with your eyes? Grep stuff? If the latter, put the ifconfig output into a file once, then do all your grep'ification passes on the file. But again with 'ip' it is 5 seconds... it really isn't an issue. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
