Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My entire system stops completely while unpacking large tar files, like when > building OpenOffice2.0-devel. Sound goes into a loop with a timeframe of > 0.001 seconds, mouse pointer stops responding, everything goes to a halt. > This lasts about 0.5 seconds, then it starts working again, and then halts > again and so on, until the tarfile is completely uncompressed. > > Is this expected behaviour? Is it a broken scheduler? Am I incuding something > in the kernel which I shouldn't have?
Sounds more like an interrupt issue. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] conf]$ grep -i sched /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NUSSE > options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler > options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time > extensions > [EMAIL PROTECTED] conf]$ uname -a > FreeBSD nusse.starshipping.com 5.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #17: Tue > Sep 13 19:31:11 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NUSSE > i386 Are you seeing interrupt storms? What kind of controller are you using on that hard disk, and is anything else sharing the same interrupt? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
