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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:36:41 +0200
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486
Message-ID:  <19990702153641.E2650@lion.plab.ku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <87btdvywsn.fsf@main.wgaf.net>; from Arcady Genkin on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:02:32AM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990702032729.14320p-100000@cygnus.rush.net> <87btdvywsn.fsf@main.wgaf.net>

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On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:02:32AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:

> It seems to me that the things are not only affected by slower I/O.
> For example scrolling in /sdand/sysinstall I can feel perceptible
> delays between me pressing "down" key and the cursor actually moving
> down. Same for other programs. I'm aware that I/O is slower with
> synchroniously mounted devices, but I don't think it should cause
> system slowing down *that* much.

> last pid:   351;  load averages:  0.14,  0.13,  0.08  up 0+00:09:15    11:56:17
> 17 processes:  1 running, 16 sleeping
> 
> Mem: 3216K Active, 4828K Inact, 2784K Wired, 1426K Buf, 3752K Free
> Swap: 40M Total, 40M Free

Hmm, what a nice clean system you have.  :-)  17 processes - wow!  No
swap in use.

Can you also send one missing line from the top output (I mean CPU
stats).  I think it might be interesting to look at - probably your
system is doing something, or it spends unusual time in interrupt
processing?

Regards,
-- 
Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>
The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen


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