Package: gkrellmd
Version: 2.3.4-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hi,

Using gkrellmd on machine with many routes (e.g. a router) is impractical. 

gkrellmd reads /proc/net/route in order to determine which interfaces are up, 
but this file may contain hundreds of thousands of lines, making parsing quite 
CPU-consuming.

Even after lowering update-hz to 1, gkrellmd still uses about 40% CPU all the 
time and the machine load stays at 0.7.

I guess it would be better if gkrellmd could use some other source of 
intormation for discovering active/inactive interfaces. 'ip link' utility seems 
to use the linux netlink socket for example.

Another solution would be to add an option which disables the /proc/net/route 
scan or makes it very rare (silimar to inet-interval).


Thanks for considering,
    dam

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