From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 12:44:15 2004 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 9FD8A16A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.cray1.de (i.would.like.to.spoof.my.realip.de [64.27.85.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D9D43D1F for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ubm@u-boot-man.de) Received: from greatsheep.marines (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.cray1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA07014 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:44:00 +0100 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:45:10 +0100 From: Marc "UBM" Bocklet To: current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040209214510.6b75da56.ubm@u-boot-man.de> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Results using ULE 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, 09 Feb 2004 20:44:15 -0000 On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 08:55:28 -0800 "Evan Dower" wrote: > I just switched to ULE (again) a couple days ago. I've been > recompiling all of my ports due to the pthreads thing and I'm running > Stanford's folding@home, so my system is pretty much never idle. I've > noticed that sometimes when I haven't used my system interactively for > a while (several hours), interactivity is slow to return when I start > using it again. For maybe around a minute, I can move the mouse and > then watch the pointer retrace my steps. Then interactivity will > suddenly return, and mouse movement goes back to normal. I'm running > with dual Athlon MP 1900+s: FreeBSD lojak 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD > 5.2-CURRENT #0: Fri Feb 6 10:46:15 PST 2004 > evantd@lojak.washington.edu:/usr/obj/usr/current/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 > Thanks a lot and I hope somebody finds this helpful, I'm seeing a similar behaviour under 5.2-RELEASE, usually when there's a lot of load on one or both CPUs, but sometimes even when the system has been idle for a while and also hasn't been used interactively for some time ( >30mins ). Those "lags" usually last only for a few seconds, though. ACPI is enabled, but does not work (probably a BIOS problem). I'm running dual PII-Xeons 450Mhz on a Tyan Thunder X. FreeBSD greatsheep 5.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Fri Feb 6 15:36:30 CET 2004 root@greatsheep:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SUBMARINE_SMP i386. Hope this helps. :-) Bye Marc