Re: Difference between 2.0.36 and 2.2.0pre3 ?

Fuzzy Fox (fox@dallas.net)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 00:20:32 -0600

Alex Butcher(linkern) <linkern@cocoa.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > stracing tar pointed out that is got something to do with sockets
> > from some strange (to me) reason it opens a socket (sunrpc ? tar ??) on
> > interface lo and repeats this for every +-5 files ;(
> >
> > and 2.0.36 didn't show this behaviour, in fact, it does everything exactly
> > the same, but it delays less long. (in fact you don't notice it)
>
> Deconfigure NIS if you don't need it.

Yes, but.... isn't this a kernel issue? When the same machine, with
the same configuration, was running kernel 2.0, these extra socket calls
were completely unnoticeable, and now 2.2 suddenly makes them
noticeable. Why is that?

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