Ok, this is a little long. My audio stops, konqueror freezes, mouse jumps when I do untar of mozilla source. In the following statistics, whenever wait is high, my audio stops and I see all the above symptoms.
$ iostat -xnzc 5 cpu us sy wt id 5 5 0 90 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 1.7 325.4 5.7 982.2 372.1 2.0 1137.6 6.0 96 98 c1d0 5.7 0.0 21.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0 0 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 2 3 0 95 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 1.5 327.7 2.8 792.5 635.2 2.0 1929.5 6.1 99 100 c1d0 ^^^^^ 0.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.9 0 0 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 2 3 0 95 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 4.0 326.9 9.8 914.6 138.1 2.0 417.3 6.0 96 100 c1d0 0.9 0.4 0.4 7.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0 0 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 10 8 0 82 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 3.0 326.6 10.3 1351.5 133.3 1.8 404.3 5.4 86 90 c1d0 21.7 0.0 85.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0 1 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 1 2 0 97 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.5 320.3 0.8 722.4 1350.3 2.0 4209.3 6.2 100 100 c1d0 ^^^^^ 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.1 0 0 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 2 4 0 94 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 1.2 326.1 3.1 736.2 915.5 2.0 2797.4 6.1 99 100 c1d0 ^^^^^ 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.3 0 0 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 1 2 0 97 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 1.3 329.3 2.2 736.2 692.6 2.0 2095.1 6.0 99 100 c1d0 0.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.9 0 0 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 4 3 0 93 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 5.2 339.2 3.1 1386.9 69.6 1.6 202.1 4.7 73 87 c1d0 85.3 0.0 334.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0 1 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 53 30 0 18 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 4.6 367.7 20.9 3414.0 107.1 0.9 287.7 2.5 40 50 c1d0 106.0 0.0 422.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0 3 c1d1 cpu us sy wt id 2 3 0 96 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 1.0 350.4 2.0 786.6 722.3 2.0 2055.2 5.7 100 100 c1d0 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.2 0 0 c1d1 This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org