From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 23:44:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B9B16A468 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:44:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (pointyhat.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D6513C4BC for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:44:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4723CD55.5090307@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:44:21 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org References: <20071027202252.GA40377@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071027202252.GA40377@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Experiences with RELENG_7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:44:19 -0000 Roland Smith wrote: > Hovewer, sometimes a program seems to hog the CPU for a couple of > seconds (as seen in top(1)) Can you please explain (with supporting paste of command output) what you mean by this? > and interactivity suffers > tremendously. Could this be the scheduler getting mixed up? This happened > two times with graphics/telak, which I use to put update some graphs on > my desktop every minute. In both cases I killed the program. But it also > happened one time with cc1 during compilation of a program. This is usually caused by the system running out of memory and touching swap. Have you ruled this out? Kris