From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 21 16:38:13 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747F237B40B; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA01812; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:37:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Matt Dillon Cc: Alfred Perlstein , John Baldwin , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_condvar.c kern_synch.c src/sys/sys proc.h References: <200108211842.f7LIgkp03186@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010821134601.J81307@elvis.mu.org> <200108212254.f7LMsFQ68740@earth.backplane.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 22 Aug 2001 01:37:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200108212254.f7LMsFQ68740@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon writes: > :8% averaged over the machine's uptime, in fact: > : > :root@des /sys/kern# uptime > :12:31AM up 5 days, 10:27, 7 users, load averages: 1.94, 1.57, 1.69 > :root@des /sys/kern# ps -axlp 5 > : UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > : 0 5 0 142 20 0 0 0 syncer DL ?? 629:49.14 (syncer) > [...] > The syncer is not typically fragile. The only thing I can think of > that could cause something like this to happen is if 'rushjob' > (aka speedup_syncer()) is being called continuously. After some discussion with jhb on IRC, I rebooted in single-user mode and ran 'fsck -y' on all file systems. It found several unreferenced directories and files on / and /home, and a handful of incorrect link counts. Background fsck is now off, and I'm somewhat confident my interrupt latency problems will not resurface, though it's too early to tell. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message