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From: smarc@mas.UUCP (Marc Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Interactive 2.2 problems
Summary: done at boot time
Message-ID: <25@mas.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 90 21:06:06 GMT
References: <382@denwa.uucp> <384@denwa.uucp> <1990Jul03.113340.17976@virtech.uucp>
Organization: Emtronix Data Services, Randallstown, Maryland
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In article <1990Jul03.113340.17976@virtech.uucp>, cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> In article <384@denwa.uucp> jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) writes:

[discussion of ver 2.2 slowdown probs deleted]

> 
> >6386E with 4 meg of RAM and 2.0.2:	6 seconds
> >6386E with 16 meg of RAM and 2.2:      31 seconds
> 
> Another factor is what did ps have to do?  (i.e. if it had to rebuild
> /etc/ps_data due to some change on the system, that would slow it down, OR
> if there were more lines of output, that would also slow it down).
> 

On some systems, at least on AT&T 3b2 machines, /etc/ps_data is rebuilt
at boot time. In /etc/rc.d I belive, a ps > /dev/null is run while
the machine is coming up. I would think that the kernel configuration
would affect the time needed to rebuild /etc/ps_data. Have you any
major differences in kernel configuration?



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