From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 12:18:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6A516A49E for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:18:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@socruel.nu) Received: from gone.xs4all.nl (gone.xs4all.nl [213.84.247.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBF843D8B for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:18:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@socruel.nu) Received: from saturnus.intra.socruel.nu (saturnus.intra.socruel.nu [172.16.0.12]) by gone.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 894D733D27 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:18:24 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:18:24 +0200 Message-ID: <302F75DC2739FB43B236373398A8C5992988@saturnus.intra.socruel.nu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Prevent process in disk wait thread-index: Acbt+Eqo0omxqQkvR3SxNFa+zUpG+A== From: "FreeBSD-Questions" Sender: "Lars Wittebrood" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Prevent process in disk wait X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:18:30 -0000 Hello list, While installing the Ruby port on a 6.1-Release system (uname -a FreeBSD sigma.socruel.nu 6.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 #0: Wed Sep 20 08:40:52 CEST 2006 root@sigma.socruel.nu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SIGMA i386) I see that the process gets into a DL+ state: 37696 p0 IW+ 0:00.00 make install 37780 p0 IW+ 0:00.00 (sh) 37781 p0 IW+ 0:00.00 make -f Makefile OPENSSL_CFLAGS=3D-DNO_IDEA install 37787 p0 IW+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh -ec ./miniruby ./runruby.rb --extout=3D.ext -- "./bin/rdoc" --all --ri --op "/usr/local/share/ri/1.8 37788 p0 DL+ 39:43.11 ./ruby18 ./bin/rdoc --all --ri --op /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system . The system is an old Pentium 5 with a standard IDE drive. Is there a possibility to tweak the system so that this doesn't happen or is something terribly wrong with the system? Besides this the system is running fine. This causes this process to take a very long time .... MTIA. Cheers, Lars. =20