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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:14:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Ken Krebs <schrade@schrade.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Latest changes to kernel are causing X slowdowns 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331130436.440D-100000@cole.salk.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5998.891374779@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Well, top doesn't show any unusual CPU usage by any process, including X
and X clients.  I'd love to provide more information on the problem but
I'm not sure what to look at.  I'm looking at systat -vmstat right now but
nothing appears out of the ordinary.

Tom


On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 
> 
> Could you please provide a bit more data here ?
> 
> Is any processes soaking up CPU time (check with top for instance) ?
> 
> If they are, please run them under "ktrace" and dump the output someplace
> where I can find it.
> 
> Poul-Henning
> 
> In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331105559.440A-100000@cole.salk.edu>, Tom Bartol w
> rites:
> >
> >I can confirm this problem as well.  I haven't tried backing out to the
> >24th yet but things are definitely slower in X here with the world and
> >kernel I just made this morning.  Netscape is especially slow.  My
> >previous build was circa 980323. 
> >
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Ken Krebs wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> Has anyone else experienced the extreme slowness caused by the latest
> >> changes to the kernel sources?
> >> 
> >> On the 30th, there were bunches of changes to the /usr/src/sys tree.  When
> >> I compiled kernel after these changes, anything I do in X is really really
> >> slow.  If I run top in an xterm, the initial drawing of the top screen is
> >> like it's running over a 9600 baud modem.  When I load up Netscape, the
> >> takes a while for it to redraw windows and there's just various things
> >> that are being affected.  (All I can see is just graphics slowness at this
> >> point)
> >> 
> >> I rebooted with a kernel I made on the 24th and everything was back to
> >> normal.
> >> 
> >> Anyone else experienced this?
> >> 
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> >> 
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