Loading time of scotty

clau@plaintree.com
Wed, 19 Mar 97 10:10:51 est

Right now when you launch a scotty or tkined process, another instance
of the Tnm dynamic library is loaded with all the functionalities and
all the MIBs (at least the core ones if you're using "mib load" to
control the loading) is loaded too. This makes the startup time
rather slow. I think this is apparent in the "Tools" in tkined. It
can take quite a few seconds to load a tool depending on what type of
machine you have. I wonder if we have any alternatives.

In a scotty script we may only need a few functions in Tnm at a time.
It would be nice if we can specify which functionalities in Tnm that
we need, e.g.

package require Tnm_snmp
package require Tnm_udp
package require Tnm_rpc
...

As for the loading of MIBs, why waste memory and startup time by
reloading MIBs for each process. We can do things like the following:

- struture the MIB in database files and do lookup in files instead
of memory.
- load one slave process that will answer queries for all other
processes.

Just some thoughts.



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