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Re: proc delays

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Tue Jul 9 10:45:40 1996

To: System Development <devel@vrml.k12.la.us>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jul 1996 12:26:19 CDT."
             <199607081726.MAA00572@vpsd5.vrml.k12.la.us> 
Date: 	Tue, 09 Jul 1996 04:15:55 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>

In message <199607081726.MAA00572@vpsd5.vrml.k12.la.us>, devel@vrml.k12.la.us w
rites:
>I have noticed that several of the network status tools will hang in mid
>report.  For instance, route will often pause during its table printout.
>ipfwadm -M -l or ipfwadm -F -l will do the same.  The pauses are either
>temporary or indefinite.  They occur at random times in the printout.
>There are no error messages from the console or syslog.  Whats going on???

Slow and/or timed out DNS (reverse) lookups.

Use the appropriate switches to get numeric output (ie, route -n) if
this is a problem.

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