From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 18 05:41:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA08721 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 05:41:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (root@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA08711 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 05:40:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from win95.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA15968; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:41:24 GMT Message-ID: <023101bd3c72$0d110740$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu> From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: "Alex Le Heux" , Subject: Re: weird things happening Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:35:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i don't really know, but i've been doing things and noticed that my machine was lagging about, anyway netscape seems to like to leave a copy of itself in memory and steal 50% of the CPU... i don't know why or how it happens, but a simple: killall -9 netscape does the trick for me. -Alfred -----Original Message----- From: Alex Le Heux To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 1:13 AM Subject: weird things happening >Hi, > >My machine has been experiencing mysterious hangs for the past week. At first >I suspected Luigi's new drivers, or the soundcard (as that was the last thing >I had modified), but they both turned out to be innocent. Investigation >indicated that it would freeze the moment it tried to swap. > >I emailed to freebsd-current about this, and John Dyson responded saying that >there were several patches to the vm system underway. The vm system is way >beyond me, so after looking at it for a while I decided to wait for those >patches. > >Today however I noticed something interesting. This might be normal >behaviour, if so, I would like to know what causes it. > >While running without swap, in 48 mb, trying to stress the memory system, >I fired up: X, afterstep, two copies of netscape and two copies of wp7 (yuch). > >The machine slowed down to a crawl. Even moving the mouse from one side of >the screen to the other took about 30 seconds. I had top running in an xterm, >and it would update that window at the blazing speed of about 2 chars/sec. > >The load hovered somewhere around 5. > >After killing one of the netscapes everything returned to normal. > >During all this there was no disk activity whatsoever. > >If this is normal behaviour, I'd be interested in knowing what the system >is so busy with, and if it's not, someone else might be interested in hearing >about this, hence my post. > >Cheers, > >Alex > >-- > Hi > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message