On Monday 23 May 2005 23:21, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > One thing that probably confuses and misleads a lot of people is when > > they build world or a kernel and notice that it's taking much longer > > than it did under 4.x, so they assume this means that 5.x is slower > > than 4.x. It doesn't. What it means is that 5.x and 4.x have > > different C compilers, and gcc 3.x is much slower at compiling code > > than gcc 2.x. You have to be very careful to draw conclusions based > > on subjective assessments like this. > > Another thing might be that interactive response time seems to be worse. > While I (or rather ports) unpack the firefox/thunderbird source, the > machine is pretty much bogged down (mouse cursor jumps around, audio > stutters...). Haven't seen that on FreeBSD since the 386 days.
I have seen this on my box. Disabling one of the USB-ports solved the problem. I was seeing very high IRQ-rates. Check $vmstat -i during the process to see if you have abnormal high rate jumps. It might be that we must investigate some of our drivers to play nice with each other. -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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