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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:14:03 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>
Cc:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com
Subject:   Re: top takes excessively long time to start on RC1....
Message-ID:  <20010823131403.B99242@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200108231640.f7NGeRj01165@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>; from bmcgover@cisco.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:40:27PM -0400
References:  <20010823192956.E503@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200108231640.f7NGeRj01165@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:40:27PM -0400, Brian McGovern wrote:
> top -u brings it down to about 40 seconds, on average (max was ~42, min
> ~38), 6 run sample.
>=20
> Peter is right. This is 'stock' from the 4.4RC1 ISO.=20
>=20
> I'll be able to collect some more data when I get home this evening from =
my
> other test machine. I'll be able to [dis]prove whether its machine specif=
ic,
> I'll be able to play with code and/or build it to profile it, and if I tr=
ack it
> in to the kernel, I'll be able to slap a debugger on it.

If you can figure out what's going on or how to repeat it on other
machines, please do.  I made a change to the signal handling in top a
week or so ago which should have been safe, and no-one else has
reported any problems, but there's always a chance.

Kris

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