Date: 02 Jul 1999 10:29:31 -0400 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 Message-ID: <877lojyvjo.fsf@main.wgaf.net> In-Reply-To: Anton Berezin's message of "Fri, 02 Jul 1999 15:36:41 %2B0200" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990702032729.14320p-100000@cygnus.rush.net> <87btdvywsn.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <19990702153641.E2650@lion.plab.ku.dk>
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Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk> writes:
> 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.
Well, and that "nice clean system" is slow as hell. ;^) I haven't
rigged it to do anything useful at all yet (not going to, really, unless I
figure out how to take it off this "parking break").
> 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?
last pid: 474; load averages: 0.05, 0.04, 0.00 up 0+00:37:45 12:24:47
16 processes: 1 running, 15 sleeping
CPU states: 4.1% user, 0.0% nice, 1.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 94.4% idle
Mem: 3024K Active, 5336K Inact, 2848K Wired, 1490K Buf, 3372K Free
Swap: 40M Total, 40M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
474 antipode 28 0 1556K 904K RUN 0:02 5.83% 4.39% top
305 root 3 0 456K 312K ttyin 0:03 0.00% 0.00% csh
152 root 2 0 888K 620K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% inetd
111 root 2 0 820K 572K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
308 root 2 0 876K 636K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% telnetd
309 antipode 10 0 500K 320K wait 0:02 0.00% 0.00% sh
316 antipode 3 0 500K 352K ttyin 0:02 0.00% 0.00% sh
315 root 2 0 876K 636K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% telnetd
155 root 10 0 980K 592K nanslp 0:01 0.00% 0.00% cron
299 root 2 0 480K 312K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% dhclient
307 root 3 0 824K 572K ttyin 0:01 0.00% 0.00% getty
306 root 3 0 824K 572K ttyin 0:01 0.00% 0.00% getty
159 root 2 0 1304K 940K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sendmail
1 root 10 0 420K 236K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% init
120 daemon 2 0 820K 400K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% portmap
42 root 18 0 204K 84K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% adjkerntz
--
Arcady Genkin
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