Re: Slow ifconfig

[Mirek Kwasniak <mirek@zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:58:55PM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> 
>  : Bug should be posted against modutils:
>  : 
>  : $ time ifconfig
>  : real    0m4.923s  :(
>  : user    0m0.020s
>  : sys     0m0.000s
>  : $ killall kerneld  !!!!
>  : $ time ifconfig
>  : real    0m0.034s  :)
>  : user    0m0.010s
>  : sys     0m0.000s
> 
> I'm running kerneld as well, I get this times:
> 
> $ time ifconfig > /dev/null
> real    0m0.289s
> user    0m0.010s
> sys     0m0.000s
> 
> 
> I disabled the ipx etc. modules in conf.modules:
> 
>   alias net-pf-3 off
>   alias net-pf-4 off                      # IPX
>   alias net-pf-5 off                      # DDP / appletalk
>   alias net-pf-10 off                     # IPv6
> 
> Maybe that works for you too?

No !!! I don't see speed differencies with "on" or "off" in config (only
visible effects are syslog messages).
What version modutils you use? It was ok whith previous versions of
modutils, current from slink (2.1.121-5) has problem.

Mirek