Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:00:34 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/62611: bzip2 have problems on pentium 100 (pkg_add dont work) Message-ID: <200402100600.i1A60YDT080503@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/62611; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Przemyslaw Laczynski <torindel@wp.pl> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/62611: bzip2 have problems on pentium 100 (pkg_add dont work) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:58:48 -0800 On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:40:54PM -0800, Przemyslaw Laczynski wrote: > On pentium 100 with intel board on chipset 430FX bzip behaves like this: > On compressing/decompressing if file is larger (eg couple MB) bzip2 dosent compress/decompress files it gives 0-150k output and then countinusly uses swap witchout any action > top says something like that: > 1298 root -20 0 7664K 1644K swread 0:10 1.17% 1.17% bzip2 > swap usage changes from 0 to 1MB, bzip2 changes size of resurces (+/- 300k) and cpu utilization but it doesnt produce any more output. It not return any errors nor kill its process. > Smaler outpus compress/decompress corectly > >How-To-Repeat: > compress decompress something larger (MB) > eg. > buzip2 perl-5.6.1_13.tbz > OR > pkg_add perl-5.6.1_13.tbz If it's swapping because there system doesn't have enough memory (you didn't specify how much), it's going to work really slow (really REALLY slow on a Pentium 100). How long did you wait before deciding it was not producing any more output? Kris
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