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- From: HEGE@finabo.abo.fi (Kaj H{ggman DC)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Finger
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.071012.8426@abo.fi>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 07:10:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.133456.9310@abo.fi> <Keith.W.Johnson.22.721965538@tek.com>
- Sender: usenet@abo.fi (Usenet NEWS)
- Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
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- In-Reply-To: Keith.W.Johnson@tek.com's message of 17 Nov 92 01:58:58 GMT
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- In <Keith.W.Johnson.22.721965538@tek.com> Keith.W.Johnson@tek.com writes:
- > I'm not sure what you mean by "lighter". I use FINGER locally on my VMS
- > machine with no arguments so it shows all current users. It used to work
- > fine then suddenly became very "heavy", taking two or three minutes before
- > I control-Y'ed out of it. Later I discovered that with version 3.1 it
- > now does a cluster-wide search, which was slows it down unless you specify
- > the /NOCLUSTER option. Just type "$ FINGER /NOCLU". I'm not sure how you
- > control that for incoming requests over the net, though.
-
- It has "always" consumed quite a lot of CPU-time, especially compared to the
- PD-finger provided by Terry Kennedy, but - just as it says above - the
- (default) clusterwide finger is even slower.
-
- I was getting a little concerned when I found out that finger was a TOP-3
- CPU-consumer, mostly because people from our u*ix-environment seem to check
- what the vms-users are doing...
-
- So, maybe only the excellent Multinet guys can provide me with some patched
- magic images :-) If incoming request to finger could be forced to do /NOCLU,
- well, that would only help a little, but sure better than nothing!
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