Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:34:08 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Wiktor Niesiobedzki <bsd@w.evip.pl> Cc: freebsd-geom <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: geli freezing 8.0 RELEASE and 7.2-STABLE Message-ID: <20091207213408.GE1795@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <2ae8edf30912050724i6f196e53y40ccd06970d59a7a@mail.gmail.com> References: <2ae8edf30912050724i6f196e53y40ccd06970d59a7a@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:24:25PM +0100, Wiktor Niesiobedzki wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently configuring new box with 8.0-RELEASE. I'm setting it up > together with geli. From time to time I notice some small freezes (for > 2-5 seconds) of the system. > > I'm doing a small test. In one shell I'm running: > > % while true ; do ; sleep 1; date ;done > sob 5 gru 2009 16:02:48 CET > sob 5 gru 2009 16:02:49 CET > sob 5 gru 2009 16:02:50 CET > sob 5 gru 2009 16:03:15 CET > sob 5 gru 2009 16:03:16 CET > sob 5 gru 2009 16:03:17 CET > sob 5 gru 2009 16:03:18 CET > sob 5 gru 2009 16:03:19 CET > > (Note the gap between 16:02:50 and 16:03:15) Hi Wiktor:) My guess is that this is because GELI worker threads are running with too high priority (at least for your configuration). If I am right, the patch below should help you: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/g_eli.c.2.patch -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFLHXTQForvXbEpPzQRAgdYAJ9Sun2SK/xTz5rV7BThKLSSwf1utQCfUT8l GmgiNBbAU3dMHse7nzQVPaA= =FVra -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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