Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:11:06 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> Cc: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Effing HAL Message-ID: <6201873e0910301211s4c4714f2w433407f458d458fa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ab7b49bc0910301148i6f0ae5aalbe441580ae69a51e@mail.gmail.com> References: <370279.86430.qm@web56502.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910300906270.49648@wonkity.com> <eeef1a4c0910300858t2ff00009xbe8d82babfea3a8c@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e0910300904v5767894bkec0e7543e28aa951@mail.gmail.com> <eeef1a4c0910301034o67cdc99cje2d50872768c9a9e@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e0910301053s77147e9dlfcd631f3385fa58a@mail.gmail.com> <eeef1a4c0910301144v2bd0fed3t8cec5a68eb77a5ea@mail.gmail.com> <ab7b49bc0910301148i6f0ae5aalbe441580ae69a51e@mail.gmail.com>
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I was part of this and the x11 mailing list during the period in which most made the switch to hal. I am fully aware of all the complaining which occurred. There was a bug which made the issue difficult. I experienced it, the workaround was available nearly immediately and fixed soon after. Nearly of the complaints were due to that bug, or misconfiguration just as you are experiencing. The bug was basically moused and hal fighting over who was polling the mouse while X was running. top is a horrible method of measuring memory usage by a process. procstat(1) will give you a much better picture, I suggest you challenge your assumptions and explore that path. However since you asked here is the diff. w/ HAL: CPU: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.8% idle Mem: 66M Active, 43M Inact, 95M Wired, 776K Cache, 48M Buf, 1789M Free Swap: 4063M Total, 4063M Free /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald stop had no discernible effect on usage. reboot after hald_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 62M Active, 43M Inact, 93M Wired, 660K Cache, 47M Buf, 1795M Free Swap: 4063M Total, 4063M Free -- Adam Vande More
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