itty bitty IRIX questions

[Scott R. Presnell]

mg at godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au (Mike Gigante) writes:

>rpaul at crow.UUCP (Rodian Paul) writes:

>]Randy Carpenter asked:

>]] |   2.) Why does ps(1) take so long every once in a while but then
>]] |       has good response at other times.

>]Dave Olson answered:

>]] If you change /unix, or remove /tmp/.ps_data, the file gets re-created,
>]] which takes a while.  After that ps runs faster.  Basicly it saves ps
>]] having to grub through the kernel symbol table on each invocation.
>]] 

My experience is that a change in /dev, or /etc/passwd will also trigger
the remake of the .ps_data

	- Scott
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