Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Interactive 2.2 problems
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.234808.9412@virtech.uucp>
Date: 12 Jul 90 23:48:08 GMT
References: <382@denwa.uucp> <384@denwa.uucp> <1990Jul03.113340.17976@virtech.uucp> <25@mas.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <25@mas.UUCP> smarc@mas.UUCP (Marc Siegel) writes:
>
>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?

/etc/ps_data is rebuilt anytime one of the following events occur:

	/unix is modified
	/etc/passwd is modified
	/dev is modified
	/etc/ps_data is missing or empty

The kernel configuration will not make a measureable difference
to the time it takes to run.  

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