Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!maestro!hanst From: hanst@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Hans Trompert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: slow ps Message-ID: <921@maestro.htsa.aha.nl> Date: 22 May 89 08:28:04 GMT References: <11749@well.UUCP> Reply-To: hanst@htsa.UUCP (Hans Trompert) Organization: AHA-TMF (Technical Institute), Amsterdam The Netherlands Lines: 34 In article <11749@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer writes: >Since we switched from a Vax to a Balance 8, the ps command has been >unacceptably slow. As in many minutes for a simple ps -x. Everything >else runs nice and fast, so what's the deal? Has anyone else come >across this problem? We have a Balance 8 with 16mB RAM and 8 CPU's, our load average is normally around 0.5. A ps doesn't take more than 1 sec. Here's the ouput of a 'time ps -x': PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 5500 ic Z 0:00 220 ic I 0:09 -msh (msh) 838 ic I 0:25 sysline -pjbDhim 839 ic S 0:14 -msh (msh) 4516 ic I 0:02 rn 4536 ic I 0:00 /bin/sh -c Pnews -h /user/staff/hanst/.rnhead 4537 ic I 0:02 Pnews /usr/local/bin/Pnews -h /user/staff/hanst/.rnhead 4570 ic S 0:04 /usr/ucb/vi /user/staff/hanst/.article 5501 ic S 0:00 sh -c time ps -x 5502 ic S 0:00 awk { 5503 ic R 0:00 pstat -T 5504 ic S 0:00 time ps -x 5505 ic R 0:00 ps -x 0.8 real 0.1 user 0.5 sys I don't know what is wrong with your ps, but it isn't normal. -- )!&@%^$!@&(^*$*!&@^%$()!@&#$*)&(^A%()*&()*^%*()&!@$(*&@(!%*)&(*&@%*(&%(*&!%&*(* & Hans Trompert # Disclaimer: % | Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam ~ I don't know, you can shoot ^ \ Technische en Maritieme Faculteit ) me in the partylights ! # % E-mail: hanst@maestro.htsa.aha.nl ! (partylights not included) ) !@&*&^%_)@!%*@!&)^*&@$&^%!_(@$+~_@$+_)@!($+)_@!%$&@$(~)!@&+@%+)@!&+%)$(@+*&()$+