Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:59:26 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Boehmer <paul@pboehmer.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance issues in 5.3-RELEASE. Message-ID: <20041117082945.B83585@netfoo.net>
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> Hello, > > Recently I took some time to upgrade my home 4.9 system to > 5.3-RELEASE (fortunately, taking full system dump before, so I can > easily get back). In fact just after upgrading I ran into the weird > issue during installation for firefox port. > > When firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2 is getting untared, the system starts to > be *slow*: any music starts to be jittered and the cursor in X stalls > from time to time for ~1 second. > > And I never had this issue before with 4.x serie. > > I tried to boot with an without ACPI, with GENERIC kernel, with my "own" > kernel configuration (GENERIC with removed unused SCSI/RAID/NIC drivers) > both with and without PREEMPTION[1]. Without any visible change in > system's > behaviour. <snip> I am also experiencing the same issue on my 5.3-STABLE workstation (last buildworld 11/15/2004). In addition to disabling/enabling ACPI and kernel tweaks, it have set my ata channels from UDMA100 to PIO4 with no change (I would have expected higher load). It appears any moderately intensive disk i/o (ie extracting mozilla source) will have a unusual high impact on system load. I can provide any additional information if needed. Thanks in advance. -- Paul Boehmer paul@pboehmer.com
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