svn commit: r239598 - head/etc/rc.d

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 02:22:56PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 13:03 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Does 'ps' vary that much across the two invocations that we had in
> > 'initrandom'?  Please post a diff to back up any "yes" answer.
...
> > We already have an invocation of 'ps'.  Please suggest a *different*
> > command invocation.
> 
> When I was playing with this stuff to come up with those command
> sequences I suggested, one thing I noticed was that the ps (with those
> extra parms for sorting and detailed stats) did differ if used as the
> first and last commands in the overall sequence.

Differ yes.  The question is by how much.


> I eventually came to the conclusion that the first one was still
> superfluous, and the way I should leverage that difference was to put
> any commands that report on ever-changing kernel statistics nearer to
> the end of the list, so that the commands that run first get a chance to
> perturb those stats as much as possible.

8-)  Same conclusion I came to.  Thus the reordering I made in r240108.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)