Very slow sed...

2007-06-20 Thread David Cross
Ok the subject line is misleading.. but I don't know how else to put it. I have a machine on which SOME programs are slow. VERY SLOW. Other programs run just fine. I cannot seem to find the source of the problem. Machine 1 (the ok machine) is running 6.2-RELEASE-pLATEST. It is a CPU: Intel(

Re: Very slow sed...

2007-06-20 Thread David Cross
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:24:01AM -0400, David Cross wrote: Machine 2: time sed -f /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/../../../../contrib/groff/tmac/strip.sed /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/../../../../contrib/groff/tmac/doc-common /dev/null real

Re: Very slow sed...

2007-06-20 Thread David Cross
ts its fine. -- David E. Cross On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:24:01AM -0400, David Cross wrote: Ok the subject line is misleading.. but I don't know how else to put it. I have a machine on which SOME programs are slow. VERY SLOW. Other programs ru

Re: Very slow sed...

2007-06-20 Thread David Cross
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13348/ENG/MQ_1687_ReleaseNotes.pdf There it is, the smoking gun. Release 1676... wow.. .that's an obscure one. Thanks you all again! -- David E. Cross On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, David Cross wrote: Thanks all.. it was the memory. It wasn't "bad&

Unnecessary reads on write load

2010-09-29 Thread David Cross
Tracking down a performance issue where the system apparently needlessly reads on a 100% write load... consider the following C test case: (more after the code) #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { unsigned char dir1[4], dir2[4], filename[15], pathname

Re: ASUS DRW-1608P, doesn't write anything

2005-04-18 Thread David Cross
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 02:16 -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > I have problem with an ASUS DRW-1609P with both 5.3 and 5.4. It won't > write any media. Even "burncd" fails with the following error: > > (Yes, I know I have "test" mode on, I got tired of making coasters) > > burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max