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Date:      Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:28:45 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current is sluggish
Message-ID:  <200602110128.50618.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <43ED294A.2050505@savvis.net>
References:  <43ED294A.2050505@savvis.net>

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On Saturday 11 February 2006 01:01, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> Dear Hackers,
>
> after upgrading to today's current my laptop is very sluggish
>
> beetle% uname -a
> FreeBSD beetle.digisle.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #48: Fri Feb
> 10 12:02:36 PST 2006
> max@beetle.digisle.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> beetle% date && sleep 1 && date
> Fri Feb 10 15:58:31 PST 2006
> Fri Feb 10 15:58:35 PST 2006
> beetle%
>
> the laptop is
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
>    Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x6d8  Stepping =3D 8
> Features=3D0xafe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PG=
E,MC
>A,C MOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE>
>    Features2=3D0x180<EST,TM2>
>    AMD Features=3D0x100000<NX>
> real memory  =3D 1073549312 (1023 MB)
> avail memory =3D 1041309696 (993 MB)
>
> and not loaded - just X, couple of xterms, firefox and thunderbird.

Are you using powerd?  Maybe the laptop is just "bored" and powerd scales d=
own=20
frequency too aggressive?

> does anyone see anything similar or its just me?

I see it too, but only when the laptop is sitting idle for a while and powe=
rd=20
scaled down to 75Mhz.  You can try to put some load on it (e.g. yes(1)) and=
=20
see if that improves things.

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