From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 23:49:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF6D16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:49:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9791743D45 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:49:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j17Nn10t001265 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200502072349.j17Nn10t001265@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:49:01 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis To: current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: odd -CURRENT performance issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:49:09 -0000 I happened to try running time make all-depends-list ten times in a row in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2. The system was freshly booted, and other than a niced setiathome, the system was idle. I got the following results: 122.63 real 29.83 user 66.29 sys 117.86 real 29.58 user 66.55 sys 119.89 real 29.80 user 67.27 sys 121.68 real 30.31 user 67.55 sys 122.10 real 30.41 user 67.66 sys 120.90 real 29.67 user 68.24 sys 121.21 real 30.27 user 67.69 sys 219.85 real 30.35 user 148.12 sys 312.54 real 30.49 user 224.79 sys 312.83 real 30.23 user 225.83 sys The last three lines are rather strange ... Kernel and world are 6.0-CURRENT, built from February 3rd sources. WITNESS, INVARIANTS, DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS, and SMP enabled, and it is fairly close to GENERIC. Here's dmesg.boot: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #290: Fri Feb 4 05:40:28 PST 2005 dl@scratch.catspoiler.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERICSMB WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Unknown CPU Type (2010.28-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383fbff AMD Features=0xc0400000 real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1042026496 (993 MB) ACPI APIC Table: ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 acpi_button1: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0x6000-0x607f,0x5000-0x500f,0x4080-0x40ff,0x4000-0x407f,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci_link0: irq 11 on acpi0 pci_link1: on acpi0 pci_link2: irq 10 on acpi0 pci_link3: irq 5 on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: port 0xc000-0xc003 mem 0xef020000-0xef020fff,0xe8000000-0xebffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 5.0 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xc400-0xc40f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 uhci0: port 0xc800-0xc81f irq 5 at device 7.2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: port 0xcc00-0xcc1f irq 5 at device 7.3 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered viapropm0: SMBus I/O base at 0x5000 viapropm0: port 0x5000-0x500f at device 7.4 on pci0 viapropm0: SMBus revision code 0x40 smbus0: on viapropm0 smb0: on smbus0 pci0: at device 7.5 (no driver attached) fxp0: port 0xdc00-0xdc3f mem 0xef000000-0xef01ffff,0xef021000-0xef021fff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci0 miibus0: on fxp0 inphy0: on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:02:b3:5c:8c:e0 ahc0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xef022000-0xef022fff irq 16 at device 12.0 on pci0 ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs fdc0: port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x30 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold ppbus0: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 atkbdc0: port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model VersaPad, device ID 0 pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: at iomem 0xc0000-0xcc7ff on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x100> vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2010280389 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 2 steps (100% to 50.0%), currently 100.0% da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 35242MB (72176566 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4492C) da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 35003MB (71687370 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4462C) cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a