[rancid] High cpu on large configs

[Lee]

On 3/24/16, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 03:06:03PM +0000, Alex DEKKER:
>> On 24/03/16 14:58, nachofw wrote:
>> > Hi, some of the devices i backup contain more than 10k config lines,
>> > specifically a cisco asa. This causes high cpu when a backup is done.
>> > How can i set a "sleep 1" in the clogin script so that when the line
>> > "<--- More --->" gets hit it whaits 1 second before continuing.
>>
>> I doubt that RANCID ever "sees" the pager lines. It almost certainly
>> sets the terminal length so that the config is never split into pages.
>
> if the device supports that, yes.

You might want to consider adding a
  terminal pager 0
to clogin in addition to the 'term len 0' to disable the pager on ASAs

Lee