Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to slink the other day.
To give an example: $ time /sbin/ifconfig >/dev/null real 0m6.788s user 0m4.450s sys 0m1.590s This used to take far less than a second... If I strace the ifconfig process, it pauses around these lines: socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3 socket(PF_IPX, SOCK_DGRAM, [PF_UNSPEC]) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) socket(PF_IPX, SOCK_DGRAM, [PF_UNSPEC]) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) socket(PF_IPX, SOCK_DGRAM, [PF_UNSPEC]) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) socket(PF_AX25, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) socket(PF_AX25, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) socket(PF_AX25, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) socket(PF_APPLETALK, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) socket(PF_APPLETALK, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) socket(PF_APPLETALK, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) brk(0) = 0x804fe0c Specifically, it pauses for about two seconds before (in?) the third socket call for each protocol (IPX, AX25, APPLETALK). My kernel is compiled without support for any of these, and I have aliasesed them to "off" in /etc/conf.modules. This happens with both kernels 2.0.36pre14 and 2.1.125. The version of netbase installed is 3.11-1. Unless one of you has a solution, I will post a bug report. TIA -- /'"`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | <http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/> --oooO--(_)--Oooo------------------------------------------ Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin