Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:33:12 -0400 From: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall comments (was Re: top takes excessively long time to start on RC1.... Message-ID: <200108231733.f7NHXCj01343@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:04:44 EDT." <5.1.0.14.0.20010823125930.04c054c0@marble.sentex.ca>
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Mike, I'll check this out, too. I've only installed it on systems with either 1 drive, or a ton. You're right, though, ad0 did appear at the END of the list when I had 5 drives (3 IDE, 2 SCSI - which, BTW, is the one showing the top problem). I agree, the boot drive should appear consistently as the FIRST drive in the list. Wait until you get to the packages menu. :) -Brian > > re: top, I am just in the process of doing the same and will test to see if > I can duplicate the behaviour on my gear. > > On another note, one thing that seems to have changed with sysintall is the > way the focus happens after certain submenu options that did not occur > before. For example, on my machine with 2 IDE drives, ad0 and ad2. For > some reason, ad2 gets listed as the "first" drive to choose from. This is > somewhat counter intuitive. > > Then, after going through the fdisk submenu, just before going to disklabel > focus remains on ad0. So if you just hit enter/OK, it deselects ad0, and > you are put back in fdisk. This was not the behaviour before and is > someone inconsistent with other submenu navigation. Note, this also > happens after selecting the XFree options. > > ---Mike > > At 12:40 PM 8/23/01 -0400, Brian McGovern wrote: > >top -u brings it down to about 40 seconds, on average (max was ~42, min > >~38), 6 run sample. > > > >Peter is right. This is 'stock' from the 4.4RC1 ISO. > > > >I'll be able to collect some more data when I get home this evening from my > >other test machine. I'll be able to [dis]prove whether its machine specific , > >I'll be able to play with code and/or build it to profile it, and if I > >track it > >in to the kernel, I'll be able to slap a debugger on it. > > > > -Brian > > > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:23:15PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > > > > > What if you start it with top -u ? > > > > > > > > Also, did you in make.conf adjust > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > #TOP_TABLE_SIZE= 101 > > > > > > He said it was a fresh 4.4RC1 install, no recompilation; so any make.co nf > > > adjustments would make no difference. > > > > > > G'luck, > > > Peter > > > > > > -- > > > I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read > > the o > >riginal Sanskrit. > > > > > > > At 12:04 PM 8/23/01 -0400, Brian McGovern wrote: > > > > >I've run in to a rather disturbing problem. > > > > > > > > > >When running a fresh install of 4.4RC1 (not an upgrade), I try to > > run top > >. It > > > > >takes approximately 1 minute, 29 seconds to begin to display data. > > > > > > > > > >The machine is a pretty typical P3 with an Intel card, 3 IDE disks > > and 2 > > > > >SCSI disks. > > > > > > > > > >systat -vmstat takes ~2 seconds to start (not bad). > > > > > > > > > >With multiple windows open, it appears that starting top isn't boggi ng > > > > >the system down (it stays mostly idle). There are no more/less > > interrupts > >, > > > > >top and systat don't show anything becoming a CPU hog, no drop in > > memory, > > etc. > > > > > > > > > >Subsequent invocations (2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.) after stopping the > > first tak > >e as > > > > >long. Parallel invocations take about 55 seconds to start > > displaying data > >. > > > > > > > > > >In looking at the top display, it appears (when running two) that > > one is > >in > > > > >the RUN state, and the other in the select state. This may be a clue . > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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