* Atom Smasher <a...@smasher.org> wrote: > http://smasher.org/tmp/zsh-bsd-sysctl-slow.png > > is there a way to get this information that doesn't take so long? > > the same info is available on linux via /sys and /proc and on > comparable hardware, i can get the info about 100x faster.
So what about other sysctls? Is it just these sysctls? It may be the case that these values are not simply read from some variable in the kernel, but really performs some hardware calls. Still, 436 msec is quite a lot of time. -- Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/
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