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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:46:46 +0100
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Current has hosed the i8254 timecounter...
Message-ID:  <20001115184646.A6612@roaming.cacheboy.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001114141859.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:18:59PM -0800
References:  <20001114225059.B4195@roaming.cacheboy.net> <XFMail.001114141859.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Nov 14, 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> > I'm seeing something similar with -current on this laptop here. Magically,
> > if I jiggle the mouse whilst playing an mp3, things start to skip and the
> > clock goes *way* off way (sometimes by a few seconds in a few seconds. :)
> 
> That is probably due to the random harvesting thread.  Or rather, that the
> overhead of ithreads together with the random kthread and the load of playing
> mp3's is starving your CPU.  Do you have any idle time at all when this happens?

Yup, plenty. Its a fast laptop. I can get real numbers back again tomorrow.



Adrian

-- 
Adrian Chadd			"Programming is like sex:
<adrian@freebsd.org>		   One mistake and you have to support for
				    a lifetime." -- rec.humor.funny



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