The first execution of the crash built-in command "ps -r" heavily consumes memory and time.
Issue
- The first execution of the
crashbuilt-in commandps -rheavily consumes memory and time.
# echo "exit" | time -v crash -s
Command being timed: "crash -s"
User time (seconds): 24.55
System time (seconds): 0.73
Percent of CPU this job got: 100%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:25.16
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 410240
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 40395
Voluntary context switches: 546
Involuntary context switches: 31
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 280
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
# echo "ps -r" | time -v crash -s
----------8<----------8<----------8<---
Command exited with non-zero status 1
Command being timed: "crash -s"
User time (seconds): 48.66 <<<---
System time (seconds): 2.03
Percent of CPU this job got: 99%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:50.92 <<<---
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 1839252 <<<---
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 416190
Voluntary context switches: 548
Involuntary context switches: 244
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 288
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.0 (Plow)
- crash
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