"[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>From my perspective scheduling on RELENG_6 was way better. Even on a full > workload like a portupgrade the focused application (both in X and on the > console) always received enough cycles to run smoothly and applications that > ran in background like audio players also kept on running fine. > > Quite the contrary on RELENG_7. During a portupgrade or even worse 'pkgdb -L' > (recovering lost dependencies) audio players (both graphical and mplayer) > scatter, either because they don't get the hard-disk or CPU-cycles (which one, > I don't know) and the focused application also often hangs. It just looks like > occasionally (under load) everything freezes for a second and then goes on > relatively normal.
Do you have ATA write-caching on or off? My experience is that if you turn caching off (on RELENG_6_x at least, have not tried 7) the machine often freezes for seconds when you are writing a lot to the disk. Bengt _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
