Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:56:58 +0200 From: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interactivity problems Message-ID: <AANLkTike9PSJt2QTe3rhQCa9KkkpHCtCvQI4lqQ1K8ON@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C3AA6D7.7070904@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C3AA6D7.7070904@FreeBSD.org>
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2010/7/12 Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>: > Howdy, > > I use -current on my laptop as my regular X platform, and for the last > few months I've been noticing that interactivity problems have been > getting a lot worse, by which I mean that if I have something running in > the background that is either disk or cpu intensive, anything else I try > to do on the system suffers. The most usual symptom is painfully slow > refresh times on windows, skipping audio, jumpy mouse, etc. These > problems persist even if I nice the hungry process. > > My kernel conf is a typical GENERIC minus stuff I don't have. You can > see the diff to GENERIC at > http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/kernel-conf.diff > > My loader.conf: > umass_load="yes" > coretemp_load="yes" > linux_load="YES" > nvidia_load="YES" > if_wpi_load="YES" > > /etc/sysctl.conf > debug.debugger_on_panic=0 > kern.module_path=/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/usr/local/modules > > No malloc.conf or libmap.conf. The only diff in my src tree is a patch > from mav vs. his latest timer update. All in all this is a very GENERIC > system, pardon the pun. :) > > Is anyone else seeing this problem? Does anyone have suggestions? Can you try to extract schedgraph traces for KTR_SCHED? Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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