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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:09:16 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        David Cross <dcross@okcupid.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Very slow sed...
Message-ID:  <20070620160916.GA26574@rot26.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070620100737.S56928@max.okcupid.com>
References:  <20070620100737.S56928@max.okcupid.com>

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:24:01AM -0400, David Cross wrote:

> Machine 2:
> time sed -f 
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/../../../../contrib/groff/tmac/strip.sed 
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/../../../../contrib/groff/tmac/doc-common 
> >/dev/null
> 
> real    0m4.506s
> user    0m4.167s
> sys     0m0.000s
> 
> Yes... you read that right... almost 400 _TIMES_ slower.  WTF..
> 
> Where should I be looking?

Try ktracing to see what it is doing (although sys time = 0 says it's
all in userland).  So maybe gprof or pmc.  Also double check the
kernel configs are identical and malloc debugging is disabled.

Kris

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