From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 27 07:35:43 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA27137 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 07:35:43 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA27131 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 07:35:39 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA12283; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 07:32:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199502271532.HAA12283@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: John Hay cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies), freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: my system has slowed down In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Feb 1995 11:01:08 +0200." <199502270901.LAA00310@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 07:32:46 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> >> Somewhere in the time between Feb 17th and today my two daily world builds >> stopped from working. Up to then I started world build at 7 a.m. and had >> finished about 5 p.m. After that I built a kernel and rebooted the system. >> This all was steered by cron. In the past days this suddenly stopped >> working. The kernel build was done in midst of the (still running) world >> build and thus the world build never finished. >> >> But I see a noticeable slow down in compiles. The machine is a 486-DX2/66 >> with 32MB of memory and two IDE Quantum Maverick 540 MB drives. >> >> I cannot image that some addition to the source tree caused such a tremendou >s >> increase in build time >12 hours (compared to 10 before). What else could >> be the cause for this? (fragmentation?) >> >> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de >> FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Sun Feb 26 >> 20:27:39 1995 root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386 >> > >I don't think it is fragmentation, because I am also seeing it. The disk seems >to be very busy, even after the patch to vfs_bio.c from John Dyson. > >-- >John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za John's first patch only made things slightly better. A more thorough fix is on the way. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================