From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 10:10:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDAF16A41F; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:10:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64F543D45; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:10:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp233-172.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.233.172]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j88AAO8f052759 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:40:30 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Don Lewis Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:40:05 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200509080813.j888DU9k038428@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <200509080813.j888DU9k038428@gw.catspoiler.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3036654.abUImJTj8f"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509081940.17216.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, killing@multiplay.co.uk, kabaev@gmail.com Subject: Re: Odd performance problem (hitching) 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, 08 Sep 2005 10:10:34 -0000 --nextPart3036654.abUImJTj8f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 08 September 2005 17:43, Don Lewis wrote: > That could be an important clue. Maybe one of the X apps that you are > running, like your mail reader, browser, or system status monitor. Try > running X with one of the lightweight window managers and just an xterm > or two. > > The 10 second interval doesn't make it sound like the problem is any of > the built in kernel tasks. It's more consistent with something that > runs every 10 seconds in userland that monopolizes some kernel resource > whenever it runs. Possibly, but I would expect to see some evidence in top of this. Also, during the 'lag' X drops or doubles up keypresses - it would suprise = me=20 to find that a userland app could make X do that very easily. I will try your suggestion though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3036654.abUImJTj8f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDIA4J5ZPcIHs/zowRAtyMAJ4iIf5nYLkr6kzlo66UxSSmYmw8ggCgmieJ k++fxMWgDfLK3anfesZRxG0= =CFfq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3036654.abUImJTj8f--