From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 19:33:19 2004 Return-Path: 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 5FF1616A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:33:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net (shockwave.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883F543D1F for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:33:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com) Received: from laptop (81-178-70-127.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.70.127]) by shockwave.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with SMTP id BBA171C000FB; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:33:16 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <000e01c470eb$d5b215e0$f800000a@laptop> From: "Markie" To: "Martin" , "FreeBSD Current" References: <1090606572.2670.15.camel@klotz.local> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:32:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: Problems with interrupts on -CURRENT? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:33:19 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin" To: "FreeBSD Current" Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 7:16 PM Subject: Problems with interrupts on -CURRENT? | | Hi, | | I have a kernel from Mon Jul 19 01:06:15 CEST 2004 and it's | terribly slow, especially while executing applications in | parallel. | | Following symptoms: | - mouse cursor is non-responsive for 3-5 seconds | - hard-disk is slow and is unusually active | (portupgrade needs about 15 minutes till | it arrives compiling first port) | - printing is slowed down a single line needs about | 10 seconds | - syncer is slowly counting vnodes down and needs | a few seconds till it arrives at 0 I think I have roughly the same sort of problems... | | I have also discovered this, after starting the print job: | Jul 23 19:35:32 Interrupt storm detected on "irq7: lpt0"; throttling | interrupt source | | Remarks about my -CURRENT kernel: | I have played with some kernel settings earlier: | - SCHED_4BSD, because UPDATING said so | - DEVICE_POLLING is now off in this kernel | | I'm just reporting it, because it might be related | with the instability issues, which you mention here. | | Any ideas what I should do now? | To get over the printer thing, which has done that interrupt storm thing for rather a long time with me but never this bad, I used polling mode instead with lptcontrol. Something like lptcontrol -p ... | Martin | | | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"