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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: csh hiccups
Message-ID: <3256@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 04:07:18 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.125200.10446@ircam.fr>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <1991Mar4.125200.10446@ircam.fr>, fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes:
> From time to time (i.e., several times a day), a command started from csh
> on our 5820 (DEC/RISC Ultrix 4.0) takes 15-30 seconds to start, regardless of
> the load average of the machine.
  
  It was my impression that what you are seeing is the symptom of problems
  in ULTRIX multiprocessing for which there is supposed to be at least
  partial relief in version 4.1.  But I may be wrong; we no longer have
  our 5810 so I lost interest in following its vagaries..


  pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org