From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 1 21:16:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA7E16A41A for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 21:16:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DD113C461; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 21:15:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <477AAD89.2000808@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:15:53 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David E. Thiel" References: <200710171228.39123.mistry.7@osu.edu> <472ED12B.7040200@gmx.de> <200711070953.22154.mistry.7@osu.edu> <200711191254.08134.mistry.7@osu.edu> <4777942D.9010209@FreeBSD.org> <20071230205519.GL73834@redundancy.redundancy.org> <477817E1.7010409@FreeBSD.org> <20071230233017.GM73834@redundancy.redundancy.org> In-Reply-To: <20071230233017.GM73834@redundancy.redundancy.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:16:00 -0000 David E. Thiel wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:12:26PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> FWIW, the problem remains for me. Still terrible performance >>> during compiles. >> OK. Instead of going over all of the usual questions again, can you point >> me to a previous mail in which you explain your observations and test >> results in detail? > > The most recent is http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=119428719505129&w=2, but > it started way back at http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-current&m=118998090512027&w=2. > > I've tried a lot of stuff in between, and all I've been able to narrow > it down to is that it's not a display driver issue, and that none of > my swap partition is getting used, so that's not the problem. During > compiles, my UP system with ULE still gets very unresponsive when > compiling, sometimes taking up to 10 seconds just to draw a new terminal > window. Even changing focus with the window manager can take several > seconds. I'd like to provide more info, but I'm not sure what stats > are useful for this particular issue. Please let me know. > > dmesg is at http://redundancy.redundancy.org/dmesg.txt, and kernel > config is at http://redundancy.redundancy.org/DEEPTHOUGHT. Even though > I'm still getting reported 80-95% memory utilization and no paging, > I'm going to get an extra gig of RAM on order to see if that improves > things. 2G of ram for a desktop, what's the world coming to? ;) OK, can you obtain a schedgraph trace when the problem is manifesting? See /usr/src/tools/sched/ and previous discussion in this or related threads. Kris