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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:01:20 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O
Message-ID:  <20061215060120.GA58596@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612150026.AAA06605@sopwith.solgatos.com>
References:  <20061214225223.GA99321@xor.obsecurity.org> <200612150026.AAA06605@sopwith.solgatos.com>

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:26:18PM +0000, Dieter wrote:
> > > FreeBSD 6.0
> >=20
> > Erk.  How about retrying with something modern ;-)  We do fix lots of
> > bugs over time you know!
>=20
> In my defense, 6.0 is only one revision down.  (until 6.2 comes out real =
soon now)

Or to put it another way, your system is missing 13 1/2 months of
continuous bug fixes :-D

> >> 32.3%Sys  31.5%Intr  0.0%User  0.0%Nice 36.2%Idl   710892 inact    32 =
3: sio1
>=20
> >> 74.8%Sys  25.2%Intr  0.0%User  0.0%Nice  0.0%Idl   828676 inact    36 =
3: sio1
>=20
> > Interrupt CPU usage might be high, but the first thing you should do
> > is retry with 6.2-rc1 and work from there.
>=20
> Whoops, the systat -vmstat and vmstat -i were with mutex profiling enable=
d.
> Sorry about that.  CPU usage is much lower with it off.  85-95% idle when=
 writing.

OK, that's better.  Still, the only thing that fits is some kind of
driver or hardware problem, so check 6.2-rc1 and see if it's still
there.

Kris

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