Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:10:30 -0800 From: Scott Gasch <scott@mail.medsp.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: sluggish machine Message-ID: <20001113101026.A43179@www.medsp.com>
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Hello, This sounds crazy but there is something wrong with my FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE box. I recently upgraded from 4.0-RELEASE where things were fine. But now, the machine is slow. There are no processes consuming the CPU and the load average is near zero. So it's not a scheduling / resource demand issue. Network traffic seems normal. It seems to me that it has something to do with the IO system... whenever file IO happens the whole machine gets very slow. The mouse slows down in X, the keyboard interrupt is not processed and it consistently takes about 5 seconds to save a small text file from any editor! In addition, editing (typing/moving the cursor around) is like using MS-Outlook when another email comes in -- every once in a while the whole thing just freezes up for 5 sec! This happens with emacs and vi both. I've looked at the system logs and found no driver complaining about a bum hard disk or otherwise. But it seems to me like something is masking off interrupts and taking an inordinately long time to reenable them. Rebooting does not help. How can I narrow down the cause and track this problem? Thanks, Scott P.S. There is no "strange" hardware on this box IMO. Nothing that doesn't have a pretty stable driver. With the possible exception of the (empty) USB ports. -- Scott Gasch scott@wannabe.guru.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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