From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 23 12:49: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from m-net.arbornet.org (m-net.arbornet.org [209.142.209.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822EF37B405; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 12:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ceesaxp@localhost) by m-net.arbornet.org (8.11.4/8.11.2) id fBNKRxC70282; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:27:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ceesaxp) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:27:56 -0500 From: Andrei Popov To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Slow performance of a recent -current/X Message-ID: <20011223152755.A67308@m-net.arbornet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Not sure whether this better belongs to -current or -questions... =20 The situation is like this: I run a recent current (cvsup'ed on Fri Dec 21) with drm (0.9.4). X 4.1.0_10 has been compiled locally with Matrox drivers from Matrox site (1.4.3, to match X4.1.x). This has also been done around = =20 the same time as the last cvsup. =20 Hardware-wise the machine is a dual Celleron-500 A-Bit BP-6 with 256Mb RAM. Hard drives are IBM DTLA-307020 and Western Digital AC14200R. IBM is not used in DMA mode (never works -- kernel resets a device a few times after read failures then freezes), but in PIO. Graphics is Matrox MGA450 w= ith 64Mb VRAM, AGP. The problem is that now, at somewhat sporadic intervals, the machine behaves like a drunken monkey -- in X cursor would suddenly perform with a 'delayed' effect -- slowly following a trajectory it was supposed to draw in no time, windows refresh (especially window decorations) with a noticable delay. This never happened before, and I am somewhat at a loss trying to pin point the cause of it. vmstat(8) has not shown anything particularly interesting, top(1) does not help either... Therfore this mail -- has anybody seen similar behavior? I would suspect t= he hard drive (IBM), but swap is barely used and there's next to no hard drive activity in many cases when I saw this... I've also heard that Matrox is not behaving too well under FreeBSD -- but there were no problems before. Thanks for comments/suggestions & please reply to my email address, as I am= =20 not on -questions. -- Andrei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message