From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 16:11:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F2337B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net [68.14.62.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3894B43E4A for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA30B8xS014986; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:11:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA30B0a3014828; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:11:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021030151646.GK95942@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:11:00 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@cox.net Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: Stijn Hoop Subject: Re: speed of -CURRENT [was: questions about the state of current Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, raymond.j.kohler@lmco.com, drosih@rpi.edu, ak03@gte.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Oct-2002 Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:48:14AM -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote: >> > I am experiencing a really noticable slower startup time on my very >> > recent-CURRENT laptop for almost all programs. The problem seems to be >> > in getting info in the cache, because it disappears when I start the >> > same program again. >> >> This almost certainly is caused by the 'ioslow' addition to >> specfs_vnops.c. Find a block in specfs_strategy function which goes into >> tsleep for niced processes and comment it out. Let us know if that helps >> :) > > Yes, that's it. -CURRENT actually feels snappier than -STABLE now :) I have to agree. Until I did this, MP3 playback (using mpg123) was horribly choppy at times. Now it's running *much* smoother. -- Conrad Sabatier I get up each morning, gather my wits. Pick up the paper, read the obits. If I'm not there I know I'm not dead. So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message