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Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 09:14:59 +0000
From: Meir Dukhan <mdukhan@bis.co.il>
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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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Subject: Re: Enabling KTRACE option
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Thanks Greg, I think you get it ;)

Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> Meir Dukhan writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I built a new kernel (2.1.6) with options KTRACE enabled, because I
> > wanted to be able to trace some processes.
> >
> > But now, it take a long time (120-150 seconds) to reboot, and sometimes
> > telnet'ing it from a another machine in our net, don't work.
> >
> > What could be the cause of this ?
> 
> Not KTRACE, anyway.
> 
> > If I want to reboot and load my precedent kernel, is all I have to do is
> > to give /kernel.old at boot prompt ? (I can't try now, because ppl here
> > need mail and telnet).
> 
> Check the names you have in /.  Anything startin with /kernel should
> be bootable.
> 
> As to the other problem: is the boot just slow from start to finish,
> or does it hang at some point?  If so, where?  I frequently see

It is just slow and doesn't hang. 

> problems like this with DNS queries.  Are you running named?

You get it!  I'm running named. Do I have to understand that it is a
known problem ? BTW, it seems that the impossibility to telnet is just
within the 3-5 minutes after the boot, and after that telnet work fine.
Is this related to named too ?

Tia


-- Meir