From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 03:37:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA19025 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 03:37:49 -0700 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA18903 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 03:29:53 -0700 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id MAA01060 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:19:03 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199509051019.MAA01060@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Why "finger" takes so long ? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:19:03 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1092 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk One of our systems has some 600+ account on it. "finger" takes some 20 seconds to run, and most of the time is spent waiting for something, as the output of "ps -augl" shows: 7834 11468 7891 2 -6 0 344 640 biowai D p5 0:01.42 finger cssip Note that re-running the same command does not give any performance improvement. At the moment, the system is mostly idle (two active users), has 16M RAM, no X active, and top shows the following: Memory: 5508K Active, 680K Inact, 2704K Wired, 1468K Cache, 3808K Free Swap: 66M Total, 62M Free, 6% Inuse Any ideas on why it takes so long ? This is something I always experienced on this system, since the feb.95 snapshot. Thanks Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================