In message <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202241418240.15572-100000@math.rice.edu>, Richard Ra
uch writes:
>> >  [...]
>> > > > The number of seeks should be closer to 1000 or 1500 per second, I
>> > > > believe.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Again, it *flies* in single-user mode.
>> > > >
>> > >
>>
>> It would probably be a good idea to go into single-user mode and run, by han
>d,
>> each of the rc.d scripts in the order that rcorder puts them in. After each
>
>I suppose that that's the way to narrow it down.  Is there an easy way to
>find out what scripts are being run in which order?

Here's the code in /etc/rc (on -current, but it's about the same on 
1.5.2, I believe) that runs the rc.d scripts:

files=`rcorder -s nostart /etc/rc.d/*`

for _rc_elem in $files; do
        run_rc_script $_rc_elem start
done



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