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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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