From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 25 16:36:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23521 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:36:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23268 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:34:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA21743; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:06:23 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980626090622.X356@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:06:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian Reichert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD faster than light? References: <19980624165018.H5023@freebie.lemis.com> <199806250711.JAA00732@semyam.dinoco.de> <19980625125431.A28673@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980625125431.A28673@numachi.com>; from Brian Reichert on Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 12:54:32PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 25 June 1998 at 12:54:32 -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 09:11:28AM +0200, Stefan Eggers wrote: >> I am using bash 2.0.x on FreeBSD 2.2-stable from last weekend for >> this. It can't even decide how long it wants to take! >> >> As I thought it might be an effect of running multi user with alot of >> daemons I did it again single user and the result was the same. I >> found no pattern in it. >> >> Funny. I now can't get it to take long again. And once it used no >> user time at all. The latter at least one can explain. Some time >> inaccuracy due to rounding somewhere. But what in hades causes the >> additional second? > > If I had to guess, this might have to be that on the first pass, > a shared library had to be loaded, and on the second pass, it was > already present, hence things were quicker... In my example, it was repeatable. I can't repeat it any more, though. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message