Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:52:49 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Paul <bsdlist@cogeco.ca> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why Message-ID: <20070424035249.GA5598@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070424025031.F0841AE5@fep1.cogeco.net> References: <00b301c785b9$0bc9b180$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070423152703.715922D1@fep2.cogeco.net> <20070423153334.GA530@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070423153808.831BF56B@fep3.cogeco.net> <20070423154745.GA872@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070423155500.413CB3A5@fep9.cogeco.net> <20070423155922.GA1156@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070424010422.9E9376A4@fep3.cogeco.net> <20070424021553.GA4224@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070424025031.F0841AE5@fep1.cogeco.net>
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--qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:50:47PM -0400, Paul wrote: >=20 > >It was almost certainly what I said above. Too bad you weren't able > >to follow through with it. > > > >Kris >=20 > Hi Kris, >=20 > I was running the make depend for over 1 hour and it showed no end in=20 > sight. I figured to run that to the finish and the full make it might=20 > have taken all day so I really had no choice :) Odd, I suspect you were doing more than just building a kernel, which only takes a few minutes to build completely (even on a quota-enabled machine ;) > I will test this and see if it fixes the problem and confirm if this=20 > is the culprit (or not). >=20 > I am surprised to hear this is all a function of the Quota problem=20 > you mention. I suppose nobody is using this anymore or is there a=20 > better system being used? It's just a left-over from the post-4.x SMP rewrite that didn't get addressed until recently. In the grand scheme of things quotas are relatively infrequently used, so it was a higher priority for the developers to work on other things first. As I mentioned, fixing this performance problem with quotas has now been completed in 7.0 and it will probably make it back into 6.x before 6.3. Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGLX8RWry0BWjoQKURAnDdAKCLwntzEDHODuC61+HYU/WgOGvEEQCfe70i MmKE1iXwuz5OnhlRo18LJfw= =naKw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--
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