Re: proc delays

Drew Eckhardt (drew@poohsticks.org)
Tue, 09 Jul 1996 04:15:55 -0600


In message <199607081726.MAA00572@vpsd5.vrml.k12.la.us>, devel@vrml.k12.la.us w
rites:
>I have noticed that several of the network status tools will hang in mid
>report. For instance, route will often pause during its table printout.
>ipfwadm -M -l or ipfwadm -F -l will do the same. The pauses are either
>temporary or indefinite. They occur at random times in the printout.
>There are no error messages from the console or syslog. Whats going on???

Slow and/or timed out DNS (reverse) lookups.

Use the appropriate switches to get numeric output (ie, route -n) if
this is a problem.

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