snd_hda(freebsd 7.0 rc1) doesn't work on dell latitude D630

2008-01-04 Thread lveax
hey all:

i can get sound from my d630.


i added the snd_hda support to my kernel configure file.
i can find info about my onboard sound card,but it still didn't work.

pcm0: 
pcm0: 

the pciconf info about it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:27:0:   class=0x040300 card=0x01f91028 chip=0x284b8086
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H &SUBSYS_81EC1043&REV_02\3&11583659&0&D8'
class  = multimedia

the output from "mixer" command:
$ mixer

 [Fri 4:32:56pm]
Mixer vol  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75c
Mixer line is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec  is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic
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Re: snd_hda(freebsd 7.0 rc1) doesn't work on dell latitude D630

2008-01-04 Thread Frank Staals

lveax wrote:

hey all:

i can get sound from my d630.


i added the snd_hda support to my kernel configure file.
i can find info about my onboard sound card,but it still didn't work.

pcm0: 
pcm0: 

the pciconf info about it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:27:0:   class=0x040300 card=0x01f91028 chip=0x284b8086
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H &SUBSYS_81EC1043&REV_02\3&11583659&0&D8'
class  = multimedia

the output from "mixer" command:
$ mixer

 [Fri 4:32:56pm]
Mixer vol  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75c
Mixer line is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec  is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic
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I have a similar problem (also with a D630 ) ; I only get sound when 
plugging in a headset or similar. Sound won't work over the internal 
speakers. I also tried the oss drivers, without
success though: at the time ( about a month ago ) it even locked up my 
system.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a
FreeBSD Rena.FStaals.net 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Fri Dec 21 
11:48:15 CET 2007 
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Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-04 Thread Chris H.

Quoting Clifton Royston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:47:43AM -0800, Chris H. wrote:

Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I
>don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume
>(or from a gconcat one AFAIK). Inferring from your fstab example
>below it doesn't sound like you intend to but I just wanted to be
>sure.

Are you sure? I read that using gmirror requires /kernel to be located
in the /boot slice and everything else (all other slices) can be mirrored
safely. But in all my reading (man pages, FBSD handbook, asstd articles)
I haven't seen anything indicating booting wasn't possible from a gstripe
volume.


 Your current idea is backwards; you can boot from entirely mirrored
drives (i.e. RAID1) and I've been doing it since 5.3, but AFAIK it is
impossible to boot from a striped drive and I suspect will remain so
for a long time.

 One way to visualize this is to recognize that because the gmirror
information is stored at the very end of the lower-level GEOM object,
each of the raw drives in the mirrored set appears to be an perfectly
normal drive when reading it from its beginning; thus it is possible to
simply read it as a normal device during the earlier stages of boot
until GEOM and gmirror loads.  With striping, however, the logical
content is spread out across multiple drives, so any one drive you try
to boot from has only 1/Nth of the relevant sectors.


Indeed, and thank you for pointing out the obvious to me. :)
I was almost immediately reminded of that after posting. :P

But really, I appreciate your taking the time to /enlighten/ me.
It /does/ help.
Given the /wealth/ of information afforded to me here on the list,
after proposing my intentions. It quickly occurred to me that I
had developed quite a few misconceptions about GEOM and friends,
and that I should have taken just a bit more time before leaping.
In the final analysis, I think it would be /far/ more efficient if
I simply blanked my current disk, and simply laid it out as I ultimately
want it. Then simply unarc the root folders to their desired destinations
from the most recent backups. Which kind of makes this thread a loop.
As my initial question was why wasn't gMIRROR part of sysinstall.
It's funny, I've spent over 2 decades running *BSD, and yet I never
really spent much time obtaining intimate knowledge about the disk
"construction". Oh, it's not that I know nothing about it. But rather,
that once I determined the ultimate layout for my needs, I simply
let sysinstall handle it. So other than needing to add disks and move/
re-create slices, I was done. But as I now revisit it, I discover I
should probably spend a little more time acquainting myself with it. :)

Thanks again for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.

Chris



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Re: gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-04 Thread Chris H.

Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If you want specific advice for a specific scenario you can 
probably get it, but you'll have to supply some additional details. 
For instance I'm still not sure if this is a new install or an 
upgrade


Both:
I was wondering why gmirror wasn't an option during sysinstall (the
creation, and installation to).
Which begged the question - now that it's installed...

(even after re-reading the entire thread), or if da3 is the same 
size as da0-2. Doing what you describe below will blow away the 
existing contents of da3 and the other disks, and/or won't be 
allowed if anything on da3 is currently mounted/running. Also you 
should stop saying mirror if you mean stripe or JBOD. :)


Quite right. Again, my bad. I'm sorry this became so convoluted. It seemed
so clear at first. But as it started a question about gmirror, and my
almost immediate discovery that gmirror doesn't do RAID0, as I required.
Turned it into gstripe. I thought I had managed to make the transition
smoothly. But as you effectively indicated, no dice. Sorry. :(
Thank you *very* much for your informative, and thoughtful replies -
and patience. :)

OK, in the final analysis I've decided (now that it's (7B4) installed...)
I'll just keep /boot, /root (and presumably /dev) on the already available
and running install disk (da3).
Then perform:

# gstripe label -v -s 131072 bigstripe \
/dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2

# newfs -U /dev/stripe/bigstripe

# mkdir /bigstripe

# mount /dev/stripe/bigstripe /bigstripe

# echo 'geom_stripe_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf

# echo '/dev/stripe/bigstripe /bigstripe ufs rw 2 2' >> /etc/fstab


Good up to here. Now you still have your running system and existing 
partitions on da3, and a new empty large raid0 volume mounted on 
/bigstripe. Before continuing, you should ask yourself (and perhaps 
tell the rest of us) what exactly do you want to use all of that 
space for?


Sure. I simply want to utilize all the space available to me on the
2U rack system it's currently running on. It's local, so I have direct
access to it.


da3 is probably large enough for the OS itself, and while
it's not redundant at least you have better odds of not losing your 
OS if a drive fails with this setup.


Well, there's kind of a funny story attached to this system. I got
up to stretch my legs, as I had been at the console for hours. So I
went for a fairly long walk. I happened to past a couple of dumpsters
during my journey and noticed a 2U rackmount system leaning against one
of them. I could see it had been there for at least a 'couple of days.
So now being confident that this was it's intended final resting place,
I picked it up and took it back with me. As I was sure that at least /some/
of the components were salvageable. After I got it back I popped the top
off of it, and had a look inside. I couldn't believe it. It had the same
Tyan board that most of the servers I manage here run. Both of the CPU
sockets were filled as well. So, I then took a careful look for any
visible damage, and couldn't find any, nor was I able to smell that
distinctive tell-tale oder that IC's, trace patterns, and such leave
after failure. So I looked it over one more time before plugging it in,
and discoverd that the single SIMM that was in it, was in the wrong
slot. So I moved it and took a chance, plugged it in and powered it
up. It POSTed as it should! Great! I just inherited a perfect system. :)
It had a copy of FreeBSD-4.3 on it. But it wouldn't boot (not that I
cared). So I did some more (deeper) probing, and discovered the 4
IBM SCSI drives installed in it had less than 20hrs. on them. They're
brand new! WOW, with that kind of luck, I should have bought a lottery
ticket. :)
To the point, given the time on these drives, and my experience with
IBM's line of ULTRA SCSI drives. I have little fear of failure for
quite some time. I also have a backup schedule that runs no less
than twice daily (immediately prior to, and immediately after build
world/kernel, install kernel/world as well). So this doesn't immediately
concern me. Many things are likely to change prior to my needing to
get concerned about drive failure.
As to keeping/wiping da3; I hadn't intended to wipe da3. But rather,
move the bulk of what's already there to the newly created stripe.
Then eventually (after ensuring everything works as intended) re-sizing
(shrinking) it down and adding the now available "slack" to the stripe
pool.




# cd /var

# tar cf - . | (cd /bigstripe; tar xvf -

and repeating the above two lines for

/bin, /compat, /dist, /entropy, /etc, /lib, /libexec,
/media, /mnt, /proc, /rescue, /sbin, /sys, /tmp, and /usr


That will get your files moved, but what are you trying to accomplish here?


Move (mostly) everything off of da3.




moving and remaking /home. Then deleting and re-creating
the above (/bin, /compat, etc...).


How do you propose to re-create them if they've been moved to

Linux Binary locking system

2008-01-04 Thread Ross Penner
Hi, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to report such a thing but it seems
appropriate to me.

I have a Linux binary which I got from *http://preview.tinyurl.com/2qwob4*.
The binary works fine for a short period but after 10 minutes or so, the
system will completely lock up. It won't be responsive from the keyboard or
the network.

Although I realize not every program will be able to run under the binary
compatibility, the system locking up seems like a significant enough bug to
have attention brought to it.
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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread David E. Thiel
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:27:39PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> OK, can you obtain a schedgraph trace when the problem is manifesting? See 
>> /usr/src/tools/sched/ and previous discussion in this or related threads.
> 
> Anyone?  Time is rapidly running out to get this fixed in time for 
> 7.0-RELEASE, so we need this trace ASAP.

Sorry, I've been unable to reboot the box with this problem this
week (to turn off hyperthreading, which is currently masking
the problem somewhat). I'll try to do this tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks,
David
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Re: Linux Binary locking system

2008-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway

Ross Penner wrote:

Hi, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to report such a thing but it seems
appropriate to me.

I have a Linux binary which I got from *http://preview.tinyurl.com/2qwob4*.
The binary works fine for a short period but after 10 minutes or so, the
system will completely lock up. It won't be responsive from the keyboard or
the network.

Although I realize not every program will be able to run under the binary
compatibility, the system locking up seems like a significant enough bug to
have attention brought to it.
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I'm not going to run some arbitrary linux binary on my system, so please 
follow up yourself with:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

:)

Kris
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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway

Kris Kennaway wrote:

David E. Thiel wrote:

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:12:26PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote:

FWIW, the problem remains for me. Still terrible performance
during compiles.
OK.  Instead of going over all of the usual questions again, can you 
point me to a previous mail in which you explain your observations 
and test results in detail?


The most recent is 
http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=119428719505129&w=2, but
it started way back at 
http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-current&m=118998090512027&w=2.


I've tried a lot of stuff in between, and all I've been able to narrow
it down to is that it's not a display driver issue, and that none of
my swap partition is getting used, so that's not the problem. During
compiles, my UP system with ULE still gets very unresponsive when
compiling, sometimes taking up to 10 seconds just to draw a new terminal
window. Even changing focus with the window manager can take several
seconds. I'd like to provide more info, but I'm not sure what stats
are useful for this particular issue. Please let me know.
dmesg is at http://redundancy.redundancy.org/dmesg.txt, and kernel
config is at http://redundancy.redundancy.org/DEEPTHOUGHT. Even though
I'm still getting reported 80-95% memory utilization and no paging,
I'm going to get an extra gig of RAM on order to see if that improves
things. 2G of ram for a desktop, what's the world coming to? ;)


OK, can you obtain a schedgraph trace when the problem is manifesting? 
See /usr/src/tools/sched/ and previous discussion in this or related 
threads.


Anyone?  Time is rapidly running out to get this fixed in time for 
7.0-RELEASE, so we need this trace ASAP.


Kris

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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway

Josh Carroll wrote:

OK, can you obtain a schedgraph trace when the problem is manifesting?
See /usr/src/tools/sched/ and previous discussion in this or related
threads.

Anyone?  Time is rapidly running out to get this fixed in time for
7.0-RELEASE, so we need this trace ASAP.


Kris,

I would be happy to try to reproduce this and provide the necessary
trace/debug info, however I admit at this point I'm not sure which set
of kernel configuration and/or setup is causing the issue.

As I said in a previous message, I solved the jerkiness by using
moused and pointing xorg.conf to /dev/sysmouse. Shall I try with
/dev/psm0 instead and provide the schedgraph info? Or is enabling
PREEMPTION (which I have done in my custom kernel) already "fixing"
this for me, and therefore should I use a GENERIC kernel, just
substituting SCHED_4BSD with SCHED_ULE?


The problems I am currently interested in are people who have not found 
an acceptable workaround for their performance problems :)


There are outstanding reports of people for whom (as I understand it) 
neither scheduler performs well on UP 7.0 systems when running X, 
compared to the same version of X on 6.x.  i.e. there seems to be some 
kind of regression that we need to understand and then fix.


Kris
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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Josh Carroll
> > OK, can you obtain a schedgraph trace when the problem is manifesting?
> > See /usr/src/tools/sched/ and previous discussion in this or related
> > threads.
>
> Anyone?  Time is rapidly running out to get this fixed in time for
> 7.0-RELEASE, so we need this trace ASAP.

Kris,

I would be happy to try to reproduce this and provide the necessary
trace/debug info, however I admit at this point I'm not sure which set
of kernel configuration and/or setup is causing the issue.

As I said in a previous message, I solved the jerkiness by using
moused and pointing xorg.conf to /dev/sysmouse. Shall I try with
/dev/psm0 instead and provide the schedgraph info? Or is enabling
PREEMPTION (which I have done in my custom kernel) already "fixing"
this for me, and therefore should I use a GENERIC kernel, just
substituting SCHED_4BSD with SCHED_ULE?

Thanks,
Josh
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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Josh Carroll
> The problems I am currently interested in are people who have not found
> an acceptable workaround for their performance problems :)

Ok, good point. :) And I guess we should assume that anyone who is
still having the problem has not had success with any of the
workarounds. I guess ideally, out-of-the-box, either with GENERIC or
GENERIC with SCHED_ULE, they should not see jerkiness, and if they do
they should report it here.

> There are outstanding reports of people for whom (as I understand it)
> neither scheduler performs well on UP 7.0 systems when running X,
> compared to the same version of X on 6.x.  i.e. there seems to be some
> kind of regression that we need to understand and then fix.

Ahh, I'm running SMP here, so that could certainly be part of the
reason just using sysmouse worked for me. Although I personally would
like to know why it's jerky when using psm0, and perhaps it might help
someone with a UP setup? If so, would the schedgraph info be useful?
If not, I'll butt out and let someone who's still having the problem
chime in. :)

Josh
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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway

Josh Carroll wrote:

The problems I am currently interested in are people who have not found
an acceptable workaround for their performance problems :)


Ok, good point. :) And I guess we should assume that anyone who is
still having the problem has not had success with any of the
workarounds. I guess ideally, out-of-the-box, either with GENERIC or
GENERIC with SCHED_ULE, they should not see jerkiness, and if they do
they should report it here.


Yes.


There are outstanding reports of people for whom (as I understand it)
neither scheduler performs well on UP 7.0 systems when running X,
compared to the same version of X on 6.x.  i.e. there seems to be some
kind of regression that we need to understand and then fix.


Ahh, I'm running SMP here, so that could certainly be part of the
reason just using sysmouse worked for me. Although I personally would
like to know why it's jerky when using psm0, and perhaps it might help
someone with a UP setup? If so, would the schedgraph info be useful?
If not, I'll butt out and let someone who's still having the problem
chime in. :)


It might be, but it is just as likely to be something else.

Kris

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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 04 January 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > David E. Thiel wrote:
> >> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:12:26PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>  FWIW, the problem remains for me. Still terrible performance
>  during compiles.
> >>>
> >>> OK.  Instead of going over all of the usual questions again,
> >>> can you point me to a previous mail in which you explain your
> >>> observations and test results in detail?
> >>
> >> The most recent is
> >> http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=119428719505129&w=2, but
> >> it started way back at
> >> http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-current&m=118998090512027&w=2.
> >>
> >> I've tried a lot of stuff in between, and all I've been able to
> >> narrow it down to is that it's not a display driver issue, and
> >> that none of my swap partition is getting used, so that's not
> >> the problem. During compiles, my UP system with ULE still gets
> >> very unresponsive when compiling, sometimes taking up to 10
> >> seconds just to draw a new terminal window. Even changing focus
> >> with the window manager can take several seconds. I'd like to
> >> provide more info, but I'm not sure what stats are useful for
> >> this particular issue. Please let me know. dmesg is at
> >> http://redundancy.redundancy.org/dmesg.txt, and kernel config is
> >> at http://redundancy.redundancy.org/DEEPTHOUGHT. Even though I'm
> >> still getting reported 80-95% memory utilization and no paging,
> >> I'm going to get an extra gig of RAM on order to see if that
> >> improves things. 2G of ram for a desktop, what's the world
> >> coming to? ;)
> >
> > OK, can you obtain a schedgraph trace when the problem is
> > manifesting? See /usr/src/tools/sched/ and previous discussion in
> > this or related threads.
>
> Anyone?  Time is rapidly running out to get this fixed in time for
> 7.0-RELEASE, so we need this trace ASAP.
http://am-productions.biz/docs/ktr.out.gz

Is there a way to export the graph once I'm looking in it in 
schedgraph.py?

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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway

Anish Mistry wrote:

On Friday 04 January 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:

Kris Kennaway wrote:

David E. Thiel wrote:

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:12:26PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote:

FWIW, the problem remains for me. Still terrible performance
during compiles.

OK.  Instead of going over all of the usual questions again,
can you point me to a previous mail in which you explain your
observations and test results in detail?

The most recent is
http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=119428719505129&w=2, but
it started way back at
http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-current&m=118998090512027&w=2.

I've tried a lot of stuff in between, and all I've been able to
narrow it down to is that it's not a display driver issue, and
that none of my swap partition is getting used, so that's not
the problem. During compiles, my UP system with ULE still gets
very unresponsive when compiling, sometimes taking up to 10
seconds just to draw a new terminal window. Even changing focus
with the window manager can take several seconds. I'd like to
provide more info, but I'm not sure what stats are useful for
this particular issue. Please let me know. dmesg is at
http://redundancy.redundancy.org/dmesg.txt, and kernel config is
at http://redundancy.redundancy.org/DEEPTHOUGHT. Even though I'm
still getting reported 80-95% memory utilization and no paging,
I'm going to get an extra gig of RAM on order to see if that
improves things. 2G of ram for a desktop, what's the world
coming to? ;)

OK, can you obtain a schedgraph trace when the problem is
manifesting? See /usr/src/tools/sched/ and previous discussion in
this or related threads.

Anyone?  Time is rapidly running out to get this fixed in time for
7.0-RELEASE, so we need this trace ASAP.

http://am-productions.biz/docs/ktr.out.gz

Is there a way to export the graph once I'm looking in it in 
schedgraph.py?


The ktr.out is all we need, thanks.

Kris

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Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Marcus Reid
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:30:40PM -0800, David E. Thiel wrote:
> I've tried a lot of stuff in between, and all I've been able to narrow
> it down to is that it's not a display driver issue, and that none of
> my swap partition is getting used, so that's not the problem. During
> compiles, my UP system with ULE still gets very unresponsive when
> compiling, sometimes taking up to 10 seconds just to draw a new terminal
> window. Even changing focus with the window manager can take several
> seconds. I'd like to provide more info, but I'm not sure what stats
> are useful for this particular issue. Please let me know. 

I get the same type of thing, and have brought it up on the lists
at some point in the past.  Basically, if the x server process
consumes enough CPU that it is not regarded by ULE to be an
"interactive" process anymore, then it doesn't fair very well
against other processes that are contending for CPU.  I use
Windowmaker, which normally treads pretty lightly, but I can
imagine that the problem would be much easier to trigger on some
other window managers.  I can easily trigger it by starting xlockmore
with a pretty busy screenhack with a compile running in the background.

Marcus
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