From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 13:45:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DC816A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:45:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9590143D45 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:45:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j7PDjHvf023301 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:45:17 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j7PDjG6P017829; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:45:16 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6335651248; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:45:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:45:16 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mark Kane Message-ID: <20050825134516.GA52695@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE 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: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:45:18 -0000 --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:16:51PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Hi everyone. Last night I finally worked out some issues with my AMD64=20 > machine and got it up and operational. It's an AMD64 3000+ with 1.5GB=20 > RAM, and five 7200RPM hard drives (total of 720 gigs) running FreeBSD=20 > 5.4-RELEASE (amd64). When doing testing and initial=20 > install/configuration of this machine (compiling apps and such) I didn't= =20 > notice this too much, but now that I'm actually using it this is=20 > starting to be noticeable. >=20 > The issue I'm having is that every minute or two, I will hear some=20 > stuttering in any audio/video playback (will see the video freeze if=20 > video), and my mouse will freeze for a few seconds as well while this=20 > happens. It seems to happen more frequently if I have something doing=20 > disk I/O, such as downloads running, untarring files, or torrents. Right= =20 > now, I have the following applications open: This is a known bug in FreeBSD. It is fixed in 6.0, and there is a patch for 5.4 (search on -current from Jeff Roberson), which will be committed at some point. Kris --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDDctsWry0BWjoQKURAqYVAKD49wPGwMdjVAW438GlIJqIbdtTaQCfVngu CkeaSf/qYH1Nia7ZDGa14OE= =a/0X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--