From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 11:30:16 2007 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 0C88116A417 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com (relay02.kiev.sovam.com [62.64.120.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975C713C458 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:30:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from [212.82.216.226] (helo=deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J9IqR-0000km-J2 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:30:14 +0200 Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBVBUBMN060997; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:30:11 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: (from kostik@localhost) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lBVBUAke060996; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:30:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:30:10 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov To: "David E. Thiel" Message-ID: <20071231113010.GM57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OOQoqpMb+LaUjGTo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071230233017.GM73834@redundancy.redundancy.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Scanner-Signature: fa718887f43e9e3967a9d10f43843ba4 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: kostikbel@gmail.com X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1976 [Dec 29 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: not dialup} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Method: Local Lists X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release 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: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:30:16 -0000 --OOQoqpMb+LaUjGTo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:30:40PM -0800, 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. > >=20 > > OK. Instead of going over all of the usual questions again, can you po= int=20 > > me to a previous mail in which you explain your observations and test= =20 > > results in detail? >=20 > The most recent is http://marc.info/?l=3Dfreebsd-stable&m=3D1194287195051= 29&w=3D2, but > it started way back at http://marc.info/?l=3Dfreebsd-current&m=3D11899809= 0512027&w=3D2. >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > 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? ;) BTW, mine similar problem completely disappeared after I switched to SMP kernel and turned on hyperthreading on my workstation Pentium IV 3GHz. I am able to run FPS games while doing 1 (and, most of the time, even 2) compilations/configure run) in parallel. The scheduler used is ULE, RELENG_7. 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