From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Aug 23 13:14:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771AD37B401; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C4B6F66CD2; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:14:03 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Brian McGovern Cc: Peter Pentchev , Mike Tancsa , 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> References: <20010823192956.E503@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200108231640.f7NGeRj01165@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108231640.f7NGeRj01165@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>; from bmcgover@cisco.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:40:27PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7hWQLWry0BWjoQKURAqIOAKCC4zoQuM0HvyW8Jb2CbUmkYBtrTACdFTBS uHseGr1c7/ZaLibuB5EPpHI= =Dnvo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message