From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 24 03:52:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 412AE16A404 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2912D13C45A for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FD01A4DBE; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 614F851406; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:52:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:52:49 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Paul Message-ID: <20070424035249.GA5598@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <00b301c785b9$0bc9b180$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070423152703.715922D1@fep2.cogeco.net> <20070423153334.GA530@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070423153808.831BF56B@fep3.cogeco.net> <20070423154745.GA872@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070423155500.413CB3A5@fep9.cogeco.net> <20070423155922.GA1156@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070424010422.9E9376A4@fep3.cogeco.net> <20070424021553.GA4224@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070424025031.F0841AE5@fep1.cogeco.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070424025031.F0841AE5@fep1.cogeco.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:52:50 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:50:47PM -0400, Paul wrote: >=20 > >It was almost certainly what I said above. Too bad you weren't able > >to follow through with it. > > > >Kris >=20 > Hi Kris, >=20 > I was running the make depend for over 1 hour and it showed no end in=20 > sight. I figured to run that to the finish and the full make it might=20 > have taken all day so I really had no choice :) Odd, I suspect you were doing more than just building a kernel, which only takes a few minutes to build completely (even on a quota-enabled machine ;) > I will test this and see if it fixes the problem and confirm if this=20 > is the culprit (or not). >=20 > I am surprised to hear this is all a function of the Quota problem=20 > you mention. I suppose nobody is using this anymore or is there a=20 > better system being used? It's just a left-over from the post-4.x SMP rewrite that didn't get addressed until recently. In the grand scheme of things quotas are relatively infrequently used, so it was a higher priority for the developers to work on other things first. As I mentioned, fixing this performance problem with quotas has now been completed in 7.0 and it will probably make it back into 6.x before 6.3. Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGLX8RWry0BWjoQKURAnDdAKCLwntzEDHODuC61+HYU/WgOGvEEQCfe70i MmKE1iXwuz5OnhlRo18LJfw= =naKw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--