InterfaceListenAddresses called way too often
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Description
InterfaceListenAddresses gets called quite a lot, and its a method that makes syscalls to resolve 0.0.0.0 addresses into real IP addresses. These should probably be cached in some way to aleviate the stress on the kernel we cause with so many syscalls here
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Locate the InterfaceListenAddresses entry point and inspect how often it resolves 0.0.0.0 addresses through syscalls. Determine an appropriate cache lifetime and invalidation behavior, then verify that repeated calls avoid unnecessary kernel lookups while returning the expected real IP addresses.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- networking, performance
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100