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Date:      Mon, 03 Sep 2001 08:44:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Heavy diskaccess slows computer down.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010903084404.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20010901092042.LCNE9437.fepZ.post.tele.dk@there>

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Use "systat -vm 1" to check if there are <100% disk usage during these periods.
Also check if your system is swapping a lot - that would indicate a ram
shortage. KDE is huge and requires quite a lot of memory, if your system starts
swapping then you would probably find KDE grinding to a halt.

I am not aware of any way to change the IRQ's. I certainly have never had to do
it. 

/Micke


On 01-Sep-01 Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> I have observed that when there is some heavy diskactivity (unpacking of a 
> large tarball or downloading multiple (10+) files) my Xsession/KDE chokes 
> sometimes to a temporary freeze/halt.
> 
> Guess it's some kind of IRQ-conflict. Now, is there some way to solve this? I 
> know that linux had this irqtune-tool, where I could change the IRQ's and 
> priority of the various channels. Is something similar possible with FreeBSD?
> 
> Bjarne
> 
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