From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 06:01:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D6016A4D1 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:01:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5398A43CC0 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:59:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C461A4D93; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:01:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F0349515CA; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:01:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:01:20 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dieter Message-ID: <20061215060120.GA58596@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20061214225223.GA99321@xor.obsecurity.org> <200612150026.AAA06605@sopwith.solgatos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200612150026.AAA06605@sopwith.solgatos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O 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: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:01:29 -0000 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:26:18PM +0000, Dieter wrote: > > > FreeBSD 6.0 > >=20 > > Erk. How about retrying with something modern ;-) We do fix lots of > > bugs over time you know! >=20 > In my defense, 6.0 is only one revision down. (until 6.2 comes out real = soon now) Or to put it another way, your system is missing 13 1/2 months of continuous bug fixes :-D > >> 32.3%Sys 31.5%Intr 0.0%User 0.0%Nice 36.2%Idl 710892 inact 32 = 3: sio1 >=20 > >> 74.8%Sys 25.2%Intr 0.0%User 0.0%Nice 0.0%Idl 828676 inact 36 = 3: sio1 >=20 > > Interrupt CPU usage might be high, but the first thing you should do > > is retry with 6.2-rc1 and work from there. >=20 > Whoops, the systat -vmstat and vmstat -i were with mutex profiling enable= d. > Sorry about that. CPU usage is much lower with it off. 85-95% idle when= writing. OK, that's better. Still, the only thing that fits is some kind of driver or hardware problem, so check 6.2-rc1 and see if it's still there. Kris --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFgjowWry0BWjoQKURAmPfAKDxX7RMV2rQ7qJKnKiKy1DP9XMWiQCghVWc /6o2WZqIr4iOsgJovKh8Z7U= =7iF6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--