From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 13:27:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA03290 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:27:23 -0700 Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA03281 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:27:13 -0700 Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA27752 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Tue, 11 Jul 1995 23:18:06 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Tue, 11 Jul 95 23:18:06 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id AAA00336; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:15:26 +0400 To: Mark Hittinger , hackers@freebsd.org References: <199507111723.NAA18294@ns1.win.net> In-Reply-To: <199507111723.NAA18294@ns1.win.net>; from Mark Hittinger at Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:23:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:15:26 +0400 (MSD) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= aka "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP in large environments Lines: 27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1303 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message <199507111723.NAA18294@ns1.win.net> Mark Hittinger writes: >If you have a large site your "sys" file can be huge. It takes >the taylor subroutines quite a few cycles to parse this file. Each time >you invoke uux, uuxqt, uucico, ect this happens. It is sort of like a >two pass compilation of the "sys" file for each uucp command. To be fair >some of the problem may be our malloc stuff. >Naturally this blew my happy 0-1.5 load averages on the target box up >to above 11. I made a few judicious patches to Taylor to allow a >"default" user, and reduced my "sys" file to about 15 lines. My load >averages are back in the happy 0-1.5 range. If anybody is going to >do something similar email me for the patches. They are tiny - but >critical! Can you resend your patches (with full explanation, of course) to following addresses: taylor-uucp@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mailing List) ian@airs.com (Ian Taylor) Ian just now plan to finish 1.06beta, maybe your patches can sneak in before release. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849