Date: 01 Oct 2005 08:33:16 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Complete hangs while extracting source Message-ID: <44psqpfmcz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050930112833.4fc7ae78@corona.grimstveit.no> References: <20050930112833.4fc7ae78@corona.grimstveit.no>
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Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no> writes: > My entire system stops completely while unpacking large tar files, like when > building OpenOffice2.0-devel. Sound goes into a loop with a timeframe of > 0.001 seconds, mouse pointer stops responding, everything goes to a halt. > This lasts about 0.5 seconds, then it starts working again, and then halts > again and so on, until the tarfile is completely uncompressed. > > Is this expected behaviour? Is it a broken scheduler? Am I incuding something > in the kernel which I shouldn't have? Sounds more like an interrupt issue. > [jakobbg@nusse conf]$ grep -i sched /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NUSSE > options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler > options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions > [jakobbg@nusse conf]$ uname -a > FreeBSD nusse.starshipping.com 5.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #17: Tue Sep 13 19:31:11 CEST 2005 root@nusse.starshipping.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NUSSE i386 Are you seeing interrupt storms? What kind of controller are you using on that hard disk, and is anything else sharing the same interrupt?
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