From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 18 13:15:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376A3106566C for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:15:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smarthost1.greenhost.nl (smarthost1.greenhost.nl [195.190.28.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA67F8FC12 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.greenhost.nl ([213.108.104.138]) by smarthost1.greenhost.nl with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryk8L-0005TZ-Cu for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:15:25 +0100 Received: from dhcp-077-251-052-224.chello.nl ([77.251.52.224] helo=pinky) by smtp.greenhost.nl with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryk8L-00078s-PL for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:15:25 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4F215A99.8020003@os2.kiev.ua> <4F27C04F.7020400@omnilan.de> <4F27C7C7.3060807@os2.kiev.ua> <4F37F81E.7070100@os2.kiev.ua> <4F38AF69.6010506@os2.kiev.ua> <20120213132821.GA78733@in-addr.com> <20120214200258.GA29641@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4F3F8F0C.3000606@hm.net.br> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:15:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4F3F8F0C.3000606@hm.net.br> User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.61 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamav at smarthost1.samage.net X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 X-Scan-Signature: 9090f8a1960d7f777b94d17b6f36e747 Subject: Re: disk access seems unitask and ant-slow X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:15:28 -0000 On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:44:12 +0100, H wrote: > Hi > > I have 9-Stable on one partition of my SATAII disk, with kde4, to be > sure I compiled yesterday sources world and kernel > > happens that any secondary task with diskaccess is so very slow that it > is inacceptable > > for example, compiling firefox and then trying to open an image with > gimp, I am sitting here for over 5 minutes and the open image dialog > still do not show the directory content ..., same with dolphin or any > other diskaccess > > I have enough cpu and ram, I go back to 8.2 and everything runs smooth > and fast as usual, same on fedora10 partition > > my disk is good and found as ada, no fault anywhere > > system is almost sleeping > CPU: 2.6% user, 0.0% nice, 3.6% system, 1.3% interrupt, 92.5% idle > > > I would be glad to get any good hint how to change that > > > > thank's Please post the output of dmesg so people have some information about your system. And /etc/sysctl.conf, /boot/loader.conf and the output of 'mount -v' are interesting also. Ronald.