From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 21 12:54:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-7.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2D137B408 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:54:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 863EB66E42; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:54:35 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Josef Karthauser Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk I/O problems with -current. Message-ID: <20010821125435.G17739@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010820115207.B1696@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="iBwuxWUsK/REspAd" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010820115207.B1696@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:52:07AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --iBwuxWUsK/REspAd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:52:07AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I'm having strange problems with -current on a laptop with 64mb of > memory. Periodically "things go strange" [tm]. >=20 > Because of the lack of memory I'm using a fair amount of swap. >=20 > Everything runs smoothly up until a point, which seems to depend upon > not running too many large processes for too long. Then the file system > grinds to a halt for seconds at a time. Some processes run, and others > just hang. Yes, I see almost exactly the same thing (except that I haven't noticed any processes which stay running during the freeze -- things like keyboard and mouse activity in X or the console always freeze). Mine could well be swap related too, though I have 128MB of memory. I really think developers should be made to run -current on an old, slow, crippled machines so they notice this kind of thing which would be lost in the noise on their fast machines :-) Kris --iBwuxWUsK/REspAd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7grx6Wry0BWjoQKURAiiaAKCxkoxrHuMHcTzH52NzmZhCkzZiDwCeKe7L EZQhg/OZbj8zQ7GaT+VscCk= =a6d+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --iBwuxWUsK/REspAd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message