From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 19 21:08:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA22730 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 21:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA22725 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 21:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA03165; Mon, 20 May 1996 14:03:34 +1000 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 14:03:34 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199605200403.OAA03165@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, taob@io.org Subject: Re: Slow tty updates and high load, but idle CPU Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> ttwrite() is probably sleeping on lbolt. This should be easy to check >> by looking at the sleep address in ps output. > Tell me if I'm on the right track: "nm /kernel | fgrep lbolt" >gives me the address 0xf01d605c. Judging by the output of >"ps axO nwchan", I should look for processes waiting at 1d605c? No, just look at the strings in `ps lax' output. Bruce