Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.8-1
Severity: minor

We have a busy imap server and w takes quite some time to report back:

# time /usr/bin/w.procps 
 17:28:19 up  7:28,  3 users,  load average: 6,36, 4,21, 3,71
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
uwp      pts/0    ... 
hildeb   pts/1    ...              10:12   21.00s 32.48s  1.15s /usr/bin/python 
/usr/bin/reportbug procps
root     pts/2    ...              17:27    5.00s  3.80s  3.75s 
/usr/bin/w.procps

real    0m4.101s
user    0m2.224s
sys     0m1.732s

# strace -c /usr/bin/w.procps 
 17:32:14 up  7:32,  3 users,  load average: 2,36, 3,22, 3,42
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
uwp      pts/0    ...              11:30    6.00s  2.63s  0.15s sshd: uwp 
[priv] 
hildeb   pts/1    ...              10:12   51.00s 32.57s  1.19s /usr/bin/python 
/usr/bin/reportbug procps
root     pts/2    ...              17:27    5.00s  4.97s  0.77s strace -c 
/usr/bin/w.procps
% time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
 90.98    0.142963         283       506           munmap
  3.38    0.005319           2      2794           close
  2.22    0.003482           2      2321           read
  1.96    0.003079           1      2790           open
  0.57    0.000901           1      1000           _llseek
  0.35    0.000550           0      1148           stat64
  0.23    0.000356           1       526           mmap2
  0.16    0.000247           0       517           fstat64
  0.09    0.000134          22         6           mprotect
  0.07    0.000108           5        23           getdents
  0.00    0.000000           0         5           write
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           execve
  0.00    0.000000           0         7           time
  0.00    0.000000           0         2           lseek
  0.00    0.000000           0       102           alarm
  0.00    0.000000           0        10        10 access
  0.00    0.000000           0         8           brk
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           ioctl
  0.00    0.000000           0        68           rt_sigaction
  0.00    0.000000           0        70           fcntl64
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           set_thread_area
  0.00    0.000000           0         6           socket
  0.00    0.000000           0         6         6 connect
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00    0.157139                 11918        16 total


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-12         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090523-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-22         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.7-1     utilities that use the proc file s

procps suggests no packages.

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