From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 21 23:03:08 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6333B91 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.bsdtec.net (mx.bsdtec.net [174.34.171.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A85962E4F for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mx.bsdtec.net [172.16.32.2]) by mx.bsdtec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18085489876; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.bsdtec.net ([172.16.32.2]) by localhost (mx.bsdtec.net [172.16.32.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id MYT5_w3OsMyX; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:54:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mx.bsdtec.net [172.16.32.2]) by mx.bsdtec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5129489898; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:54:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bsdtec.net Received: from mx.bsdtec.net ([172.16.32.2]) by localhost (mx.bsdtec.net [172.16.32.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Wuhs54XLt97P; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:54:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.110] (bsdtec.plus.com [84.92.41.141]) by mx.bsdtec.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 98F0B489876; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:54:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1385074468.3191.6.camel@atlas.lerwick.hopto.org> Subject: Re: High system time, 10-BETA3 on a Netra T1 From: Craig Butler To: symbolics@gmx.com Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:54:28 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20131113204030.GA76860@lemon> References: <20131113204030.GA76860@lemon> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.16 Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:03:08 -0000 On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 20:40 +0000, symbolics@gmx.com wrote: > List, > > I've recently obtained a Netra T1 AC200 and installed FreeBSD 10-BETA3. > I know this system is old and won't be quick, however, something looks > odd. > > I'm running portsnap extract. top is reporting that ~65% of the time is > being spent in the kernel, with about 25% left for user, about ~10 for > idle and the rest on interrupts. The disc itself is running at about 20% > busy according to gstat. > > Looking at 'top -S -m io' I see that bufdaemon is running at ~98%. > > Is this something I should look into further or just accept? > > --sym > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello Sym I don't think I am seeing that on 9.2-RELEASE on the sparc64.. root@bulldog:~# top -S -m io last pid: 4305; load averages: 0.83, 0.32, 0.15 up 0+00:18:02 22:35:28 64 processes: 3 running, 60 sleeping, 1 waiting CPU: 25.0% user, 0.0% nice, 68.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 7.0% idle Mem: 92M Active, 39M Inact, 108M Wired, 336K Buf, 741M Free Swap: 4099M Total, 4099M Free PID USERNAME VCSW IVCSW READ WRITE FAULT TOTAL PERCENT COMMAND 1465 root 63 29 27 0 0 27 100.00% sh 11 root 0 47 0 0 0 0 0.00% idle 0 root 52 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% kernel 3780 root 2 1 0 0 0 0 0.00% top gstat showing my disk at 2-3% busy... then 100% for a few seconds, then back to 2-3%... The portsnap extract appears to be operating normally for a 500Mhz UltraSparc IIe. Kind Regards Craig Butler