From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 15 9:46:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from roaming.cacheboy.net (roaming.cacheboy.net [203.56.168.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C80A37B4CF; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:46:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by roaming.cacheboy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAFHklK06627; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:46:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:46:46 +0100 From: Adrian Chadd To: John Baldwin Cc: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: Current has hosed the i8254 timecounter... Message-ID: <20001115184646.A6612@roaming.cacheboy.net> References: <20001114225059.B4195@roaming.cacheboy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:18:59PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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