Re: 5.3-RC1 unresponsive *after* a cpu-hog job is over?
From: Steve Burton (steve_at_sliderule.demon.co.uk)
Date: 10/27/04
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:14:19 +0100
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:17:49 +0000 (UTC), talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr
(Michel Talon) wrote:
>Kris Kennaway <kkenn@xor.obsecurity.org> wrote:
>> On 2004-10-25, Ben Crowell <crowellSPAMISEVILwell04@lightNOSPAMandmatter.com> wrote:
>>> I've recently upgraded from 5.2 to 5.3-RC1, and although for the most part
>>> I've been very impressed, there is one strange thing that's happening now.
>>> While a CPU-hog job (lilypond and LeTeX) is running, X (fluxbox)
>>> becomes unresponsive. That isn't so strange in and of itself, although it
>>> does seem subjectively worse than before. What's really strange is that
>>> for a minute or so after the CPU hog finishes, X is *still* unresponsive.
>>> For instance, I click on an aterm window, and it takes 5-10 seconds to
>>> draw the contents of the window. If I do a 'top', I don't see any processes
>>> eating CPU. My understanding is that 5.x is keeping
>>> the same old scheduler, and the new scheduler isn't going to be included
>>> until 6.x (or maybe later in the 5.x series). Does anyone understand why
>>> this would be happening?
>>
>> I think a fix for this was merged after RC1. Can you update and retry?
>>
>> Kris
>
>I have tried a live cdrom with FreeBSD-5.3-RC produced by the livebsd
>team,
>http://www.livebsd.com/5_X/
>and i must say i have been very much impressed. In particular no such
>slowness as you mention. On the contrary, everything is very fast,
>this live CD is basically in par with a linux Knoppix cdrom. Thanks
>to the upgrading to KDE-3.3.0 windows appear really fast.
>
>By trying it you can also discover the new drogonflybsd installer which,
>in this CD, allows to install FreeBSD-5 to harddisk, directly from live
>CD. One of the niceties of this installer is that you can pilot it from
>a distant machine through a web browser, see:
>http://www.bsdinstaller.com/
Alas, the live CD only downloads using BitTorrent which can't see
through the authenticating proxy I use :-) One or two other security
programs I run lit up too, it was trying to act as a server and I have
a policy about that even if my ISP doesn't. I'll wait.
Steve.
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