From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 6:55:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0992D14D5D for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 06:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net (HSE-TOR-ppp22927.sympatico.ca [209.226.71.217]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA21572 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:58:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 1104Jn-0000Fo-00; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:29:31 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 References: <87btdvywsn.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <19990702153641.E2650@lion.plab.ku.dk> From: Arcady Genkin Date: 02 Jul 1999 10:29:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Anton Berezin's message of "Fri, 02 Jul 1999 15:36:41 +0200" Message-ID: <877lojyvjo.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 56 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070089 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.89) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anton Berezin 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 "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message