From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 24 17:59:05 2008 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 6ED0A16A419 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:59:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D7E13C4EC for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JI6Lt-0002Ih-Ho for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:59:01 +0000 Received: from 78-0-88-44.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.0.88.44]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:59:01 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 78-0-88-44.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:59:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:58:52 +0100 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <18328.45282.562906.708945@celery.zuhause.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6524D27A1A652E455CF1D99C" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-0-88-44.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <18328.45282.562906.708945@celery.zuhause.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Sender: news Subject: Re: Weird performance behaviour in 7.0 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: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:59:05 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6524D27A1A652E455CF1D99C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bruce Albrecht wrote: > This is my first Q6600 based system, and my first 7.0 system, and my > first AMD-64 system and my first ZFS base system, and I'm seeing > something really strange. Every now and then, processes run really > slowly, like at 1/600th (or worse) than it ought to, but it racks up > the CPU time as though it's running full tilt. Are you running powerd? Also, cpufreq driver was included in the GENERIC kernel in 7.0 (it was=20 optional in 6.x), so it might also cause problems somehow. To verify=20 this, try building a kernel without cpufreq. Also, does your BIOS do any power-saving gimmicks? --------------enig6524D27A1A652E455CF1D99C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHmNHdldnAQVacBcgRAs3fAJ0aEtZ7aG2myiufvLVPRclgqnOlywCg+YlI 6ySN3zwxOT90Plf7TkHdGP4= =p1rA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6524D27A1A652E455CF1D99C--