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From: Paul Richards <paul@lambda>
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Subject: Re: Poor program load time
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:59:27 +0100 (BST)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
In-Reply-To: <199506230549.PAA27010@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 23, 95 03:49:26 pm
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In reply to Bruce Evans who said
> 
> >I have very often exprienced cases where I will attempt to run a program (be it
> >ls or xterm) where for no apparent reason it takes seconds to load and execute.
> >This is on a P100 w/ 32mb ram and 1gb SCSI disk (but It occurs on all 2.0.5-R
> >systems).
> 
> >My guess is the problem is with the merged vm cache code.  As my cache is
> 
> This seems likely.  Yesterday it seemed to take > 10 seconds to start a new
> program after I had been doing large operations on gcc-2.7.0 (compiling
> while copying and rm -rf'ing old versions).  There was time to switch
> consoles and attempt to start programs on several consoles.  Usually the
> delays seem to be only 1-2 seconds.  They have been happening for 6 months
> except perhaps in May.

I've experienced slow start up as well over a similar time period.

-- 
  Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 
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