sysctl way too slow

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:49:07PM +1200, Atom Smasher wrote:
> the same info is available on linux via /sys and /proc and on
> comparable hardware, i can get the info about 100x faster.

Are you sure that Linux is not just caching the data? I know of at least
one system where it takes more than 100ms to query the battery state due
to extremely slow hardware, I wouldn't be surprised if you can do worse.

Joerg