Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:28:02 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "David E. Thiel" <lx@redundancy.redundancy.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3) Message-ID: <477E96D2.30202@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <477AAD89.2000808@FreeBSD.org> References: <200710171228.39123.mistry.7@osu.edu> <472ED12B.7040200@gmx.de> <200711070953.22154.mistry.7@osu.edu> <200711191254.08134.mistry.7@osu.edu> <b1fa29170711191022k2e3ea2afocdcd32ca0279c41a@mail.gmail.com> <4777942D.9010209@FreeBSD.org> <20071230205519.GL73834@redundancy.redundancy.org> <477817E1.7010409@FreeBSD.org> <20071230233017.GM73834@redundancy.redundancy.org> <477AAD89.2000808@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > David E. Thiel wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:12:26PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>>> FWIW, the problem remains for me. Still terrible performance >>>> during compiles. >>> OK. Instead of going over all of the usual questions again, can you >>> point me to a previous mail in which you explain your observations >>> and test results in detail? >> >> The most recent is >> http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=119428719505129&w=2, but >> it started way back at >> http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-current&m=118998090512027&w=2. >> >> I've tried a lot of stuff in between, and all I've been able to narrow >> it down to is that it's not a display driver issue, and that none of >> my swap partition is getting used, so that's not the problem. During >> compiles, my UP system with ULE still gets very unresponsive when >> compiling, sometimes taking up to 10 seconds just to draw a new terminal >> window. Even changing focus with the window manager can take several >> seconds. I'd like to provide more info, but I'm not sure what stats >> are useful for this particular issue. Please let me know. >> dmesg is at http://redundancy.redundancy.org/dmesg.txt, and kernel >> config is at http://redundancy.redundancy.org/DEEPTHOUGHT. Even though >> I'm still getting reported 80-95% memory utilization and no paging, >> I'm going to get an extra gig of RAM on order to see if that improves >> things. 2G of ram for a desktop, what's the world coming to? ;) > > OK, can you obtain a schedgraph trace when the problem is manifesting? > See /usr/src/tools/sched/ and previous discussion in this or related > threads. Anyone? Time is rapidly running out to get this fixed in time for 7.0-RELEASE, so we need this trace ASAP. Kris
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