Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:25:01 +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: <3aaaa3a0705090325g3590e878kc7e67c6562e21ad8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070505160221.GC57955@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070423153334.GA530@xor.obsecurity.org> <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> <3aaaa3a0705050423x72b78952wfd530a492c9cea14@mail.gmail.com> <20070505160221.GC57955@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 05/05/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:23:12PM +0100, Chris wrote: > > 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. > > Have you tested the 6.x patch? It's easy to criticize the developers > but harder to actually step up and help with the process yourself. > > Kris > > Where is the 6.x patch? thanks Chris
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