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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:34:45 +0200
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>
To:        Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486
Message-ID:  <19990702163445.F2650@lion.plab.ku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <877lojyvjo.fsf@main.wgaf.net>; from Arcady Genkin on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:29:31AM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990702032729.14320p-100000@cygnus.rush.net> <87btdvywsn.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <19990702153641.E2650@lion.plab.ku.dk> <877lojyvjo.fsf@main.wgaf.net>

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On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:29:31AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:

> 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

Everything looks OK to me.  1.5% system is probably OK for 486 in those
conditions. I noticed that last pid changed quite a bit comparing with
your previous post - did you do many things with the machine?  When you
don't do anything, how often last pid advances?  Is it similar to a
normal cron-bound situation?

Also, you have two network boards - can this be a problem somehow?
What's your netstat -i?

Does this system has software turbo switch (like in DOS,
Ctrl+Alt+GrayMinus turns trubo off etc.)?  It sound a bit crazy, but
maybe something just switches it off during the bootstrap?

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


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