Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:37:23 +0200 From: Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heavy disk activity and "freezes" w/ latest commits Message-ID: <20001208103722.A1051@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012080051550.437-200000@lcl12.cvzoom.net>; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:57:43AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012080051550.437-200000@lcl12.cvzoom.net>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello, Donn Miller! On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:57:43AM -0500, you wrote: > With the latest commits, I've noticed that the system tends to > "halt" temporarily when there is a lot of disk activity. For example, > doing cp with a lot of really big files caused XFree86 to freeze while the > file transfer was taking place. The file transer was not affected in > any way during the "freeze". It seems like the multi-tasking is > affected with heavy disk activity. I've got softupdates enabled, if that > helps. I've got the same problem, it seems to me it started on 4.2-BETA. XFree freezes while I'm making something like rm -rf /usr/obj or copying big amount of files. I've tried to use soft-updates, it helped a little but sometimes it starts again. Attached my dmesg. > > This problem just cropped up about 2 days ago or sooner. I've attached my > dmesg. I've never seen this problem before. Maybe there was a change > made to the scheduler and/or ata driver? -- Alexandr P. Kovalenko http://nevermind.kiev.ua/ NEVE-RIPE --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="dmesg.out" Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Wed Nov 22 18:39:47 EET 2000 never@nevermind.kiev.ua:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/nevermind Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (400.91-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5 Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> real memory = 100651008 (98292K bytes) avail memory = 93933568 (91732K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc038d000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 4.2 chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0 rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xe3000000-0xe30000ff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:83:f6:bb miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pcm0: <Yamaha DS-1 (YMF724)> mem 0xe2800000-0xe2807fff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0 pci0: <ATI Mach64-GU graphics accelerator> at 12.0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, logging disabled DUMMYNET initialized (000608) BRIDGE 990810, have 20 interfaces -- index 1 type 6 phy 0 addrl 6 addr 00.50.ba.83.f6.bb IP Filter: v3.4.8 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging = disabled ad0: 19569MB <WDC WD205AA-00BAA0> [39761/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM <CD-532E-A> at ata1-master using PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=200 minor=0 tag=$Name: build-570 $ /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized BRIDGE 990810, have 21 interfaces -- index 1 rl0:1 type 6 phy 0 addrl 6 addr 00.50.ba.83.f6.bb -- index 21 8 type 6 phy 0 addrl 6 addr 00.bd.98.0f.00.02 rl0: promiscuous mode enabled >> now rl0 promisc ON if_flags 0xffff8943 bdg_flags 0x5 vmnet2: promiscuous mode enabled >> now vmnet2 promisc ON if_flags 0xffff8943 bdg_flags 0x5 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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