From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 10 16:09:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08863 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 16:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (fullermd@shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08849 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 16:09:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@shell.futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21474; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:09:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980710180908.47807@futuresouth.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:09:08 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: substantial performance drop with rc5des References: <199807100710.DAA13519@xxx.video-collage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199807100710.DAA13519@xxx.video-collage.com>; from Mikhail Teterin on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:10:06AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:10:06AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin woke me up to tell me: > Hello! > > I'm experiencing serious slowdown when rc5des runs on my PPro200. > I understand that this thing would eat up all the CPU it can, but > I did not expect it to noticeable affect the time it takes elm to > spawn `more' with a mail message. After I used idprio, the time > went from 3-4 seconds to about one -- still long. man also takes > noticably longer to come up. "!uname -a" from `vi' just took 2 > seconds! > > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 24850 mi 105 33 596K 240K RUN 178:08 94.99% 94.99% rc5des > 3578 mi 2 0 23804K 11936K select 177:32 0.15% 0.15% Xaccel > [......] idprio 31 -24850 You don't have it idprio'd all the way down. When you do, it will show as niceness 52. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message