On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 02:22:56PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 13:03 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > Does 'ps' vary that much across the two invocations that we had in > > 'initrandom'? Please post a diff to back up any "yes" answer. ... > > We already have an invocation of 'ps'. Please suggest a *different* > > command invocation. > > When I was playing with this stuff to come up with those command > sequences I suggested, one thing I noticed was that the ps (with those > extra parms for sorting and detailed stats) did differ if used as the > first and last commands in the overall sequence.
Differ yes. The question is by how much. > I eventually came to the conclusion that the first one was still > superfluous, and the way I should leverage that difference was to put > any commands that report on ever-changing kernel statistics nearer to > the end of the list, so that the commands that run first get a chance to > perturb those stats as much as possible. 8-) Same conclusion I came to. Thus the reordering I made in r240108. -- -- David ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
