From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 6 19:24:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D178916A417 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from smtp6.versatel.nl (smtp6.versatel.nl [62.58.50.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7E613C4E3 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:24:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 11594 invoked by uid 0); 6 Feb 2008 19:25:08 -0000 Received: from ip176-173-59-62.adsl.versatel.nl (HELO Rena.FStaals.net) ([62.59.173.176]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp6.versatel.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for < >; 6 Feb 2008 19:25:08 -0000 Message-ID: <47AA08E8.1020502@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:22:16 +0100 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071224) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD References: <47A3720D.1080702@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <47A3720D.1080702@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: buildworld releng7 exterme performance loss 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: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:24:09 -0000 Frank Staals wrote: > Every 2 weeks or so I rebuild my sources on my laptop ( Dell Latitude > D630 ). Last wednesday I wanted to update my system again since it was > allready a couple of weeks ago I rebuilded my sources. There were no > abnormalities during the build/install. But when I restarted my system > the system performance was absolutely *horrible*. When I try typing > anything in a terminal window the lag is about 20 seconds before the > command even shows up. Switching ttys takes at least as long. When > logging in remotely the performance is better; giving a random command > through the ssh session sometimes even allows a command run on a > local-console to run/finish ( or at least thats what the screen shows ). > > Even trying to shutdown the system using shutdown -p now doesn't have > any effect: I get the message "System is going down NOW" but nothing > realy happens, I just get my prompt back and I can continue entering > commands. When I push the power-off button the system actually starts > shutting down but it stops at "Writing entropy file ." leaving my > only choise to power off the system the hard way. When booting the > system to single-user mode however it reacts normally and also > shutting down works as it should > > Last 2 days I tried redownloading the sources from a different mirror > ( cvsup2.freebsd.org instead of cvsup.nl.freebsd.org ) to rule out > outdated/corrupted sources. But I still get the same behaviour. > Gladly I still had my previous sources so I managed to restore my > system in a working state. Those sources are from about 3 weeks ago. > Does anyone know what could have caused this behaviour and how to fix > it ? Below is some system information, however I'm not sure what I > should provide to help out, if I should test something I'll gladly do. > > Working system (sources from about 3 weeks ago, rebuilded today ) : > > frank@Rena# uname -a > FreeBSD Rena.FStaals.net 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Fri > Feb 1 20:23:11 CET 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RENAKERNEL i386 > > dmesg: http://fstaals.net/junk/rena/dmesg_old.txt > > With today's ( 1 frebruary 2008 ) sources : > > frank@Rena# cat /root/uname > FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Feb 1 18:32:59 > CET 2008 frank@Rena.FStaals.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RENAKERNEL i386 > > dmesg: http://fstaals.net/junk/rena/dmesg_2008_01_02.txt > > Kernel config used for both the builds : > > http://fstaals.net/junk/RENAKERNEL.txt > Updated my sources again today. This time even build with a GENERIC kernel but still the same result. Is there nobody who can help me with this ? -- -Frank Staals