From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 10:57:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0006A106566B; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:57:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asmrookie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E308FC08; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so1577140qwg.13 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:56:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=6zwczqIGalwA9FVS1obhAyeFDYQ7CXGfU2MGgO3pwew=; b=deTjCtM8UNifUE9J1JeBQDwEVmsjidvdWEPrz75vqUSQIBA4mCoqCoHk67uLSICyf1 nZveBPYjYL3TOE5YWZbFg7DTN9ArKQ0rTTPsvZ+1Bg3rtkgnqAP9vqWw0AKwTrp1RiLq 6cSBwuAsHfQGCEQWj6yLyZPyxeOaGqI0VyUjA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=tpSpPYNNpdBCH2A/6aarZXwV3CEfT7MeERUpf/ctCLYM7J0ZHTI2nS+oUNr07h7pue cs9zQ5EJuzOMpCPEGnob1d0dcjdI5cTbvwEDPyM2ipJT6nyqo7jv/miQaq9nxEOr1J/I Ap9Cr3o9+qSyI9JmlOYZV+7WC1iv+J8h7sOxs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.69.17 with SMTP id x17mr7635282qai.283.1278932218875; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Sender: asmrookie@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.248.12 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:56:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C3AA6D7.7070904@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C3AA6D7.7070904@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:56:58 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xuSaVULp8Ki1U-6J7IhHlAb_zw8 Message-ID: From: Attilio Rao To: Doug Barton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interactivity problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:57:01 -0000 2010/7/12 Doug Barton : > 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