Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:19:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why "finger" takes so long ? Message-ID: <199509051019.MAA01060@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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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/ ====================================================================
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