From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 05:23:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC8A106564A for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:23:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5025F8FC17 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10758 invoked by uid 399); 12 Jul 2010 05:23:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 12 Jul 2010 05:23:40 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C3AA6D7.7070904@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:23:35 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100701 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Interactivity problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 12 Jul 2010 05:23:42 -0000 Howdy, I use -current on my laptop as my regular X platform, and for the last few months I've been noticing that interactivity problems have been getting a lot worse, by which I mean that if I have something running in the background that is either disk or cpu intensive, anything else I try to do on the system suffers. The most usual symptom is painfully slow refresh times on windows, skipping audio, jumpy mouse, etc. These problems persist even if I nice the hungry process. My kernel conf is a typical GENERIC minus stuff I don't have. You can see the diff to GENERIC at http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/kernel-conf.diff My loader.conf: umass_load="yes" coretemp_load="yes" linux_load="YES" nvidia_load="YES" if_wpi_load="YES" /etc/sysctl.conf debug.debugger_on_panic=0 kern.module_path=/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/usr/local/modules No malloc.conf or libmap.conf. The only diff in my src tree is a patch from mav vs. his latest timer update. All in all this is a very GENERIC system, pardon the pun. :) Is anyone else seeing this problem? Does anyone have suggestions? Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/