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- From: djh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (David Hornsby)
- Subject: Re: Why does atis burn so much CPU time ??
- Message-ID: <9302902.3681@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <C1807v.KpC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:50:57 GMT
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- e-sink@uiuc.edu (Eric W. Sink) writes:
- >According to ps, on our RS/6000 system, atis is using tremendous
- >amounts of cpu cycles, even when no one is using the system.
-
- The atis process handles ECHO and NBP packets for the CAP node. When
- using CAP in Native EtherTalk mode it also sees every RTMP packet.
-
- The amount of cpu consumed by atis will vary widely depending on how
- busy your network is and how many NBP names are registered on the host.
- In an attempt to quantify "tremendous amounts of cpu cycles" the two
- closest RS/6000s have used 3 and 11 cpu minutes per month for a 20-30
- user zone. These figures are the same order of magnitude as 'init' ...
-
- - David.
-