From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 05:47:35 2003 Return-Path: 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 61B8037B404 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 05:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDD743F85 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 05:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h4AClXGm013301 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 05:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com ([67.32.249.101]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HEO8V800.57U; Sat, 10 May 2003 05:47:32 -0700 Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 07:47:29 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Paul Richards From: David Leimbach In-Reply-To: <1052570246.27195.6.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com> Message-Id: <8F9E6B86-82E5-11D7-9B15-0003937E39E0@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupt latency problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 12:47:36 -0000 I had a problem like this as well when I wasn't using /dev/sysmouse as my mouse driver way back in FreeBSD 4.3 or 4.4... I don't remember which. Make certain your configuration uses the native FreeBSD mouse driver and that moused is running. I know its a weird solution but it really worked for me back then and may work for you now... give it a whirl. Dave On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 07:37 AM, Paul Richards wrote: > I'm having real problems with current with heavy disk activity. > > When working in X and updating ports which causes a lot of disk > activity > I get *very* poor interactive responses. Keypresses can not appear for > seconds and mouse movement is very jerky and unresponsive. > > I'm wondering if something is holding locks a long time in interrupt > handlers and causing mouse/keyboard interrupts to be lost? > > Since this is caused by heavy disk activity then my first guess would > be > the ATA driver. > > Is anyone else seeing anything like this? > > -- > Paul Richards > FreeBSD Services Ltd > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"