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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:09:08 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: substantial performance drop with rc5des
Message-ID:  <19980710180908.47807@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807100710.DAA13519@xxx.video-collage.com>; from Mikhail Teterin on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:10:06AM -0400
References:  <199807100710.DAA13519@xxx.video-collage.com>

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On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:10:06AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin woke me up to tell me:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm experiencing serious slowdown when rc5des runs on my PPro200.
> I understand that this thing would eat up all the CPU it can, but
> I did not expect it to noticeable affect the time it takes elm to
> spawn `more' with a mail message. After I used idprio, the time
> went from 3-4 seconds to about one -- still long. man also takes
> noticably longer to come up. "!uname -a" from `vi' just took 2
> seconds!
> 
> 
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   24850 mi      105  33   596K   240K RUN    178:08 94.99% 94.99% rc5des
>    3578 mi        2   0 23804K 11936K select 177:32  0.15%  0.15% Xaccel
> [......]

idprio 31 -24850

You don't have it idprio'd all the way down.  When you do, it will show
as niceness 52.



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