On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:42:55PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote:
>
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> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:52:07AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> >
> >>I'm having strange problems with -current on a laptop with 64mb of
> >>memory. Periodically "things go strange" [tm].
> >>
> >>Because of the lack of memory I'm using a fair amount of swap.
> >>
> >>Everything runs smoothly up until a point, which seems to depend upon
> >>not running too many large processes for too long. Then the file system
> >>grinds to a halt for seconds at a time. Some processes run, and others
> >>just hang.
> >>
> >
> >Yes, I see almost exactly the same thing (except that I haven't
> >noticed any processes which stay running during the freeze -- things
> >like keyboard and mouse activity in X or the console always freeze).
> >Mine could well be swap related too, though I have 128MB of memory.
> >
> >I really think developers should be made to run -current on an old,
> >slow, crippled machines so they notice this kind of thing which would
> >be lost in the noise on their fast machines :-)
>
>
> I've also noticed this... Sunday and yesterday, I deleted ALL installed
> -ports and -packages thinking that the meinproc issue with kde-2.2 was being
> caused by conflicts in libraries and/or include files [it's not either] on
> this system which has had about three years since a good clean scrubbing...
>
> While I was busy recompiling the basics, I noted that the disk activity
> would stop, and the console become non-responsive, yet there was no panic or
> other kernel message. This was happening consistantly for about 12 hours or
> so, and I had to back down from 5 or 6 parallel -ports compiles to one and
> two in parallel.
>
> I also have noted that when switching VTY [by hand, or when exiting X] the
> system would panic on mwrite and give message about the possibility of
> buffers being wierded out POSSIBLY [the message was a question].
>
> I also noted on several instances that the "freezes" would occur when there
> is heavy disk and CPU activity combined with network access [this may or may
> not be a contributing factor, I don't know] such as fetching a distribution
> file.
>
> I have also noticed extreme slowness when disk activity occurs. top will
> show almost no CPU being used, but when there is something being copied or
> moved, everything becomes REALLY sluggish. This has only been noticed in
> kernels of the last month or so.
>
3/4th's of these problems describe ones I am having. I have a
Gigabyte 7ZX w/ thunderbird 1100 & 256mb ram. 3c905b. I'm running
-current as of 1.5 weeks ago. nvidia geforce DDR and sb
128(onboard). My drives are IDE w/ 1 cdrom and 1 scsi burner.
> Tyan S1696-DLUA MoBo, 2 ATAPI busses in use 20G-pri-master, 12G-pri-slave,
> HP burner sec-master, 2 SCSI-UW busses in use ST15150W dedicated bus, NEC
> CD-ROM and HP DDS2 on second bus, LinkSys [dc0] 10/100 ethernet, DEC DEFPA
> SAS UTP-PMD, SB-Live!/Value, Hauppauge WinTV/Theatre. dual P-II/333's,
> 512Megs SDRAM. Matrox MGA-G200 AGP. USB CompactFlash/SmartMedia reader.
> -CURRENT as of 3am CDT today.
>
> I noticed a lot of changes last night, especially in the vm code, and I'll
> wait and see if this fixes anything I've noted... Man them cvsup servers
> were slow this morning!
>
>
Please let me know, I'd definitely make world if this fixes those
problems. I'd be more than willing to test any patches anyone can
think to send me.
--
David W. Chapman Jr.
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