Subject: Problems persists....

From: [email-masked] (Brianbhc)
Date: 26 Aug 1996 16:42:11 -0400

Thanks to the folks who responded...but...the problems persists,

after the pine command is issued the user is faced with over a minute
delay before
the Pine screen is displayed. The process is in brackets as shown:

$ ps -ef|grep pine                                                      
    bman 11737 10300   1 16:32:52 pts/16  0:00 grep pine                
    root 20652 12420   0 16:23:06 pts/12  0:00 [pine]                   
$ ps gu|grep pine                                                       
bman     11739  0.0  0.0   76  120 pts/16 S    16:33:01  0:00 grep pine 
root     20652  0.0  4.0  440 1600 pts/12 S    16:23:06  0:00 [pine]    

As you can see the cpu and memory seems fine.

One of the responses was:

>Well, it seems that either the ps command or pine itself has some
>problems.
>Here is the part of ps's man-page:
> ...
>  With the -f flag, the ps command determines what the command name
>  and parameters were when the process  was  created,  by examining
>  memory or the paging area.  If the ps command cannot find this
>  information, the  command  name stored in the kernel is displayed
>  in square brackets.
> ...

Pine may be having difficulty starting, I have heard that pine can use
a lot of memory if the Inbox folder is very large. Check your
paging space with 'lsps -a', a program will be slow to start if
it has to get hold of a lot of memory that isn't very available.

But a lsps -a command reveals this:

$ lsps -a                                                                 
    
Page Space  Physical Volume   Volume Group    Size   %Used  Active  Auto 
Type 
hd6         hdisk0            rootvg          64MB      55     yes   yes  
 lv 

I currently hiding in a small cupboard, trying to stay clear of all users.
Thank god for portables...but
my battery is dying.

Many Thanks........

Brian