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Re: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs


On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:21:50PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>       bufalloc = 0;
>       do
>         {
> ==>       bufalloc += 1000;

> 
> I have a theory that the performance data may be added in chunks larger
> than 1000 bytes, so the fhandler just can't keep up with the amount of
> data, and loops indefinitely.  Since you intend to build the DLL from CVS,
> you're probably in the best position to check whether this theory is true
> (by either just upping the increment amount to something like 5000, or
> even doubling the buffer size on each iteration).

Perhaps bufalloc += max(bufalloc, 1000);

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