From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 17:30:39 2010 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 9EA6010656A4 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:30:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD7E8FC19 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9416 invoked by uid 399); 19 Aug 2010 17:30:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 19 Aug 2010 17:30:37 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C6D6A3C.9020507@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:30:36 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100807 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andriy Gapon References: <4C6D4CB4.20601@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4C6D4CB4.20601@icyb.net.ua> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Runaway intr, not flash related 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, 19 Aug 2010 17:30:39 -0000 On 08/19/2010 08:24, Andriy Gapon wrote: > I am sorry, but I don't see anything dramatically wrong here. So > "swi4: clock" uses 5.76% of WCPU, is that such a big deal to be > called "runaway intr"? That's the symptom. > A lot of CPU time is idle and a lot is used by userland processes > (e.g. Xorg). Can you provide data that better illustrate your > problem? The problem is that when this happens, the system becomes unusable. Videos stop playing, switching between windows takes more and more time, mail client is painfully slow, etc. If I leave the system alone when this starts happening the clock eventually consumes all CPU, the system freezes, or it crashes. Since the last 2 require a full fsck to recover from I tend to power down first. :) BTW, something interesting happened the other day. I was having this problem over and over with the same hulu video, so I finally switched to windows in order to just finish watching it. After about 5 minutes watching the same show in windows the video started to stall just like it had in freebsd, but after about 5 seconds of that it "caught up" with itself, and I was able to watch the last 20 or so minutes without any problems. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso