Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:29:56 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top takes excessively long time to start on RC1.... Message-ID: <20010823192956.E503@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010823121939.03e928f0@marble.sentex.ca>; from mike@sentex.net on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:23:15PM -0400 References: <200108231604.f7NG45j01008@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010823121939.03e928f0@marble.sentex.ca>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:23:15PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > What if you start it with top -u ? > > Also, did you in make.conf adjust > [snip] > #TOP_TABLE_SIZE= 101 He said it was a fresh 4.4RC1 install, no recompilation; so any make.conf adjustments would make no difference. G'luck, Peter -- I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit. > At 12:04 PM 8/23/01 -0400, Brian McGovern wrote: > >I've run in to a rather disturbing problem. > > > >When running a fresh install of 4.4RC1 (not an upgrade), I try to run top. It > >takes approximately 1 minute, 29 seconds to begin to display data. > > > >The machine is a pretty typical P3 with an Intel card, 3 IDE disks and 2 > >SCSI disks. > > > >systat -vmstat takes ~2 seconds to start (not bad). > > > >With multiple windows open, it appears that starting top isn't bogging > >the system down (it stays mostly idle). There are no more/less interrupts, > >top and systat don't show anything becoming a CPU hog, no drop in memory, etc. > > > >Subsequent invocations (2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.) after stopping the first take as > >long. Parallel invocations take about 55 seconds to start displaying data. > > > >In looking at the top display, it appears (when running two) that one is in > >the RUN state, and the other in the select state. This may be a clue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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