Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 12:23:12 +0100 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Paul <bsdlist@cogeco.ca>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0705050423x72b78952wfd530a492c9cea14@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070424035249.GA5598@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <00b301c785b9$0bc9b180$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <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> <20070424035249.GA5598@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 24/04/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:50:47PM -0400, Paul wrote: > > > > >It was almost certainly what I said above. Too bad you weren't able > > >to follow through with it. > > > > > >Kris > > > > Hi Kris, > > > > I was running the make depend for over 1 hour and it showed no end in > > sight. I figured to run that to the finish and the full make it might > > 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 > > is the culprit (or not). > > > > I am surprised to hear this is all a function of the Quota problem > > you mention. I suppose nobody is using this anymore or is there a > > 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 > > Hi Kris please address this ASAP in 6.x, QUOTA is used quite often in server environments probably more so then you believe. Considering 6.x is pushed as a stable version of FreeBSD and 4.x was killed off its dissapointing QUOTA was knowingly broken and left unpatched. Chris
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