Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:40:57 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UPDATE: FreeBSD 4.3 --> pits Message-ID: <3B33AD59.354B4DD9@urx.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106220902330.16722-100000@users.icubed.com>
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"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > Cheese... If people would READ the posts instead of accusing the > posters of bashing FBSD. FBSD is my O/S of choice on my home PC. > I have been using it since 3.5 and have had absolutely no problems > until I loaded 4.3. > > Thanks to those that tried to help via emails. As an experiment I > reloaded 4.2 w/o any selected packages and w/o X. Install time was 15 > minutes. Definitely not a hardware problem. I then installed 4.3 w/o > any selected packages and w/o X. Install time was 35 minutes. More > than twice the 4.2 install. > > I then opened up a second terminal (in 4.3) and issued a "top". I > went back to first terminal and ran /stand/sysinstall, selected all > of the XFree86 4.0 packages I could find and started the install. Lo > and behold it was NOT a hardware problem as some suspected. I > appears that pkg_add copies the file from the CD to some temp file. > This copy is very quick. The "top" command show that problem is with > "gzip/tar/mtree/rm" commands that are being executed by the pkg_add > command. > > I have a 300Mz PIII system with 192MB ram. The "top" command > indicates that I have 10MB active, 145MB inactive, and the rest was > allocated to buffers etc. Why is 145MB inactive? This is not the > case in 4.2. Also the CPU is 98% idle during the whole process. > Again why? The "gzip/tar/mtree/rm" commands are using 0.01% of the > CPU. Is this normal? I don't believe this low CPU usage is the norm > in 4.2 either. The bigger the files the more time it took for the > whole pkg_add process. The /stand/sysinstall status line was > reporting the "Package xxxx was successfully read, waiting for > pkg_add(1)". I left the system installing and went to bed. I took > all night to load the selected XFree86 packages. > > The whole install of 4.2 with XFree86, Gnome, KDE, and other selected > packages took less than an hour. > > Again I'm not BASHING FBSD, I'm only trying to find out why 4.3 is such > a dog on my home PC. They turned off write caching on IDE drives for one thing. My buildworld time log shows the difference. For example, buildworld -j8 1649.700u 679.762s 41:23.96 93.7% 1283+1449k 45479+3468io 1642pf+0w 1653.885u 677.372s 41:17.73 94.0% 1285+1449k 46791+3418io 1609pf+0w buildworld -j6 1601.699u 657.196s 29:00.09 129.8% 1314+1472k 43718+3411io 3248pf+0w 1606.729u 640.580s 29:00.13 129.1% 1321+1483k 43964+3408io 3284pf+0w buildworld -j8 1598.496u 642.897s 28:55.45 129.1% 1322+1483k 44354+3431io 3289pf+0w The first two were when write caching was turned off and the last three were after it was turned back on as a default. Kent > > -- > -=[cwa]=- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA ICQ# 121258098 mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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