Hi *,

has anyone else seen that ps is dead slow (eating much sys time) with
a -current (kernel+userland) as of 20040201?

pip# time ps alxww
  UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI  NI    VSZ    RSS WCHAN    STAT TT    TIME COMMAND
    0   668     1   0  18   0   1080   3012 pause    Ss+  03 0:00.62 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid 
    0     0     0   0 -18   0      0 105924 schedule DKs  ?? 0:01.07 [swapper]
    0     1     0  29  10   0     60    208 wait     Ss   ?? 0:00.07 init 
    0     2     0   0 -18   0      0 105924 smtaskq  DK   ?? 0:00.00 [sysmon]
    0     3     0   0  10   0      0 105924 pmsreset DK   ?? 0:00.00 [pms0]
    0     4     0   0   0   0      0 105924 fwohciev DK   ?? 0:00.00 [fwohci0]
    0    99     0   0  10   0      0 105924 nfsidl   SK   ?? 0:00.00 [nfsio]
    ...
    0   336     1  22   3   0     52      4 ttyin    SWs+ E4 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyE4 
    0   338     1  22   3   0     52      4 ttyin    SWs+ E5 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyE5 
       19.21 real         0.04 user        15.41 sys

This seems to me as a bit too much system time. pmap seems to crawl also (didn't wait
for it to finish). Anything i could have overlooked ?

Frank