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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:48:37 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: computer becomes slow when compiling something
Message-ID:  <20070828154837.GV2332@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20070828143626.GA32611@admin.opentransfer.com>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:36:26AM -0500, Oleg Nauman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:48:13PM +0800, Ganbold wrote:
> > Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > >On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:14:58PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> > > =20
> > >>On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Ganbold wrote:
> > >>
> > >>   =20
> > >>>I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT with SCHED_ULE, INVARIANTS, WITNESS=
=20
> > >>>enabled kernel.
> > >>>     =20
> > >>Try the same thing again without INVARIANTS and WITNESS, both of whic=
h=20
> > >>can consume a lot of CPU in kernel on a very active system, especiall=
y if=20
> > >>lots of vnodes are being allocated and freed.  Especially WITNESS.
> > >>   =20
> > >
> > >It does happens on the kernels without debug options, in particular,
> > >WITNESS and INVARIANTS.
> > >
> > >It happens when a lot of short-lived processes are rapidly created.
> > >Compilation is a good example of such workload; running configure scri=
pt
> > >is even better.
> > > =20
> >=20
> > What would be a solution to this kind of problems?
>=20
>  From my point of view it exhibits some issues with standard SCHED_4BSD
> scheduler in the 7.0 (my laptop is mostly unusable during 'make buildworl=
d'
> for example - keyboard exhibits lost event sometimes, sound is jerking et=
c etc).
> So I'm switched to SHED_ULE on my UP laptop; it was helpful. I'm running
> custom kernel without debug options though.

SCHED_ULE also exhibit the behaviour, but in lesser degree. Due to this,
I suspect that the problem in the common code.

Jeff, any suggestions ?

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