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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:23:15 -0400
To: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: top takes excessively long time to start on RC1....
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What if you start it with top -u ?

Also, did you in make.conf adjust

# top(1) uses a hash table for the user names.  The size of this hash
# can be tuned to match the number of local users.  The table size should
# be a prime number approximately twice as large as the number of lines in
# /etc/passwd.  The default number is 20011.
#
#TOP_TABLE_SIZE= 101
#

At 12:04 PM 8/23/01 -0400, Brian McGovern wrote:
>I've run in to a rather disturbing problem.
>
>When running a fresh install of 4.4RC1 (not an upgrade), I try to run top. It
>takes approximately 1 minute, 29 seconds to begin to display data.
>
>The machine is a pretty typical P3 with an Intel card, 3 IDE disks and 2
>SCSI disks.
>
>systat -vmstat takes ~2 seconds to start (not bad).
>
>With multiple windows open, it appears that starting top isn't bogging
>the system down (it stays mostly idle). There are no more/less interrupts,
>top and systat don't show anything becoming a CPU hog, no drop in memory, etc.
>
>Subsequent invocations (2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.) after stopping the first take as
>long. Parallel invocations take about 55 seconds to start displaying data.
>
>In looking at the top display, it appears (when running two) that one is in
>the RUN state, and the other in the select state. This may be a clue.
>
>         -Brian
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