Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:06:19 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> Cc: Ken Krebs <schrade@schrade.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest changes to kernel are causing X slowdowns Message-ID: <5998.891374779@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:00:18 -0800." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331105559.440A-100000@cole.salk.edu>
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Could you please provide a bit more data here ? Is any processes soaking up CPU time (check with top for instance) ? If they are, please run them under "ktrace" and dump the output someplace where I can find it. Poul-Henning In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331105559.440A-100000@cole.salk.edu>, Tom Bartol w rites: > >I can confirm this problem as well. I haven't tried backing out to the >24th yet but things are definitely slower in X here with the world and >kernel I just made this morning. Netscape is especially slow. My >previous build was circa 980323. > > >Tom > > >On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Ken Krebs wrote: > >> >> Has anyone else experienced the extreme slowness caused by the latest >> changes to the kernel sources? >> >> On the 30th, there were bunches of changes to the /usr/src/sys tree. When >> I compiled kernel after these changes, anything I do in X is really really >> slow. If I run top in an xterm, the initial drawing of the top screen is >> like it's running over a 9600 baud modem. When I load up Netscape, the >> takes a while for it to redraw windows and there's just various things >> that are being affected. (All I can see is just graphics slowness at this >> point) >> >> I rebooted with a kernel I made on the 24th and everything was back to >> normal. >> >> Anyone else experienced this? >> >> *********** NewOrderDepecheModeUltravoxViolentFemmesKillingJoke *********** >** >> * Ken * NineInchNailsFront242TangerineDreamTheBreedersTekno * > * >> * Krebs * SkinnyPuppyLaTourBauhausBookOfLoveModernEnglishB52s * > * >> *********** FishBoneBigCountryJoyDivisonSiouxsie&TheBansheesXTC *********** >** >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >~~ >> IRC: Schrade E-Mail: schrade@schrade.com <URL:http://www.schrade.com/>; >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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