[13150] in Athena Bugs
NetProb: SLOW on RISC/6000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sao@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 30 15:38:54 1995
From: sao@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 15:38:48 -0500
To: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sao@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Looks like you've found some pessimal behavior on the RS6000, probably
on the client side as it works through the rules in your .netprobrc5.0.
By copying your .netprobrc5.0 into my directory and turning off the
"Bugs for ... Rule" and "JIC Rule" I got xnetprob popping up in about
2:30 (two and a half minutes) on a RS6000. It took just under a minute
on a DECstation 5000.
WITH those two rules, on the other hand, it took 8:45 on a RS6000, and
2:30 on a DECstation 5000.
Things learned from this?
-It takes xnetprob about three times longer to come up on an RS6000.
-Eliminating complex rules from your .netprobrc5.0 will help it
come up faster.
Putting a real parser into the client instead of the horrid string interpreter
it currently has would help, but I don't see spending time on this right now.
