Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:45:19 -0700 From: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Dag-Erling =?unknown-8bit?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r239598 - head/etc/rc.d Message-ID: <20120906224519.GB18953@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <1346962976.59094.187.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> 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>
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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)
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