From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 6 22:45:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 914A8106566B; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 22:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:45:19 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: Ian Lepore Message-ID: <20120906224519.GB18953@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <201208222337.q7MNbORo017642@svn.freebsd.org> <5043E449.8050005@FreeBSD.org> <20120904220126.GA85339@dragon.NUXI.org> <50468326.8070009@FreeBSD.org> <20120906164514.GA14757@dragon.NUXI.org> <867gs7qcsl.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120906184400.GF13179@dragon.NUXI.org> <86lignot6a.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120906200325.GA17159@dragon.NUXI.org> <1346962976.59094.187.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1346962976.59094.187.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Arthur Mesh , Dag-Erling =?unknown-8bit?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , Mark Murray , Doug Barton , freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r239598 - head/etc/rc.d X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: "Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:45:20 -0000 On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 02:22:56PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 13:03 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > Does 'ps' vary that much across the two invocations that we had in > > 'initrandom'? Please post a diff to back up any "yes" answer. ... > > We already have an invocation of 'ps'. Please suggest a *different* > > command invocation. > > When I was playing with this stuff to come up with those command > sequences I suggested, one thing I noticed was that the ps (with those > extra parms for sorting and detailed stats) did differ if used as the > first and last commands in the overall sequence. Differ yes. The question is by how much. > I eventually came to the conclusion that the first one was still > superfluous, and the way I should leverage that difference was to put > any commands that report on ever-changing kernel statistics nearer to > the end of the list, so that the commands that run first get a chance to > perturb those stats as much as possible. 8-) Same conclusion I came to. Thus the reordering I made in r240108. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)