[Dxspider-support] FW: Spider Performance & Bug with >= 10 GH z Spots from AK1A nodes

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:32:12PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> > 
> > Also oddly having some problems with console not terminating properly when
> > doing a 'b' at the spider command line. The process will sometimes (about
> > 50% of time) hang and sit eating significant chunks (15%) of CPU time. Dies
> > when you close the SSH session of course.
> 
> I am now pretty much certain that this is an issue with glibc 2.0 and/or
> 2.2.x kernels or earlier.
> 
> This NEVER happens for me. Another reason to upgrade. It may also be a
> issue that there is a 'knee point' of some kind in perl performance v
> CPU speed (although I can't say I have noticed). 
>  

I haven't seen this with 2.2.20. I am running glibc 2.2.5 here (Debian
3.0) on a 120 MHz Cyrix.  I'm building up a new, faster machine and
will upgrade my kernel as part of that effort.

> Dirk
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Heisenberg never could make up his mind!

73, 
Bob N7XY