From: Martin Harriss <martin@Princeton.EDU>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] stand-alone fileserver of little value
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:12:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B1D2103.97AC01C@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010605162144.C27D1199E7@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Paul C Lustgarten wrote:
.....
>
> Separately, my new fileserver is also behaving strangely in its
> processing of commands at the console. There is a 3-6 second
> delay following each command (such as "date" or "who"), as well
> as following each line of output for more complex commands, such
> as "cpu" or "help" (!). During the delay, type-ahead is lost.
> Also, the cpu command shows process 21 ("con") as running pretty much
> continuously, and a trace on the not-yet-used system shows processes
> 5-20 waiting for some resource, contrary to the man page's guidance
> that a trace on a quiescent system will have no output.
> Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this delay?
...
I did track this down once. There's a call to delay() somewhere. I
forget where - I think it's either part of the command processor or
maybe the console printing/flushing routines. No, I don't know why.
Maybe some leftover debugging code?
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-05 18:12 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20010605162144.C27D1199E7@mail.cse.psu.edu>
2001-06-05 17:54 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-06-05 18:12 ` Martin Harriss [this message]
2001-06-05 18:18 rog
2001-06-05 18:18 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-06-05 19:50 dmr
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