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Date:      Sat, 1 Aug 2009 23:15:09 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195960 - in head/sys/dev/usb: . controller input
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908012313500.1507@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200908010615.02972.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <200907300014.n6U0EZ77086341@svn.freebsd.org> <d04e16b70907310045y635245efob33b10464c22524f@mail.gmail.com> <20090731212140.GK47463@elvis.mu.org> <200908010615.02972.hselasky@c2i.net>

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On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

>>> This has slowed down core dumps very significantly.  What used to take 
>>> 10-15s on my system now takes around 3 minutes.  A simple test is to break 
>>> into ddb and "call doadump" with or without this rev.  I have a serial 
>>> console on this machine and so I can use ddb whether the attached USB 
>>> keyboard works or not.
>
> It's because there is a DELAY(1000) in the UKBD's polling routine so that 
> key- repeating will work, no magic.

Given a choice between dumping 10x faster and having automatic key repeat in 
DDB, I'd lean towards the former.  :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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