On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 12:39:24PM +0200, Frank Wille wrote: > Alan Barrett wrote: > > > It's not just checking whether a pid is alive, it's checking whether > > the PID represents a shell running /etc/rc, to guard against pids being > > recycled. That part is probably unnecessary. > > > > I can also reduce the number of times _have_rc_postprocessor is called. > > Thanks. I can make comparison tests on some classic hardware, as soon as a > new patch is available. > > I think this would be quite important to fix for 7.0, as it affects all > hardware with a weaker CPU. And NetBSD runs on a lot of this hardware > (embedded, NAS, etc.).
I think the performance issue is serious enough to justify reverting the change in its entirety. -- Thor Lancelot Simon [email protected] "We cannot usually in social life pursue a single value or a single moral aim, untroubled by the need to compromise with others." - H.L.A. Hart
