Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:59:27 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@lambda> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu Subject: Re: Poor program load time Message-ID: <199506231300.OAA08218@lambda> In-Reply-To: <199506230549.PAA27010@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 23, 95 03:49:26 pm
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In reply to Bruce Evans who said > > >I have very often exprienced cases where I will attempt to run a program (be it > >ls or xterm) where for no apparent reason it takes seconds to load and execute. > >This is on a P100 w/ 32mb ram and 1gb SCSI disk (but It occurs on all 2.0.5-R > >systems). > > >My guess is the problem is with the merged vm cache code. As my cache is > > This seems likely. Yesterday it seemed to take > 10 seconds to start a new > program after I had been doing large operations on gcc-2.7.0 (compiling > while copying and rm -rf'ing old versions). There was time to switch > consoles and attempt to start programs on several consoles. Usually the > delays seem to be only 1-2 seconds. They have been happening for 6 months > except perhaps in May. I've experienced slow start up as well over a similar time period. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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