From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 24 14: 0:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A70037B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9DA43EB2 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:00:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0212.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.212] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18cBsG-0001gL-00; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:00:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3E31B72F.9349FD17@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:59:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Lawson Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a43ca96688f290776ab91066839dacad1a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Lawson wrote: > > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it > > > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so, > > > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling > > > software and copying files over NFS while listening to MP3's, later > > > realized it wasn't just MP3's that lagged, but the whole machine, > > > including console and everything. > > > > If you lean on the keyboard, or if you set up the network adapters > > as "entropy" sources, does the problem fix itself? > > This can't be it since /dev/random is non-blocking in 5.x See other posting; though I could certainly write an app that would keep hitting /dev/random until it got what it wanted... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message