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. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

