From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 12:50:16 2003 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 8F76416A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perrin.nxad.com (internal.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1351943FA3 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@nxad.com) Received: by perrin.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 75FCD21058; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:50:15 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: sebastian ssmoller Message-ID: <20030915195015.GC45649@perrin.nxad.com> References: <20030913233905.GA3834@crodrigues.org> <1063457548.846.44.camel@tyrael.linnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1063457548.846.44.camel@tyrael.linnet> X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad performance 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: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:50:16 -0000 > i recently switched from mandrake to freebsd. i used a second system, > to install freebsd 5.1 (release) on a 15 gb western digital disk. i > installed the whole system without problems and managed to start gdm and > gnome2. everything worked fine and performance (launching gdm, gnome2 > and firebird) was really good (better then mdk :) > > then i moved the disk from the hardware used during install into the > "production" environment which includes VIA 82C8363 (Apollo KT133A) > board, NVidia GeForce2 grafic card (using nvidia native driver for x11), > AMD Duron 750 MHz, 512 mb ram. > > everything worked fine again. BUT: launching gdm needs a lot of time, > same for gnome2. when i start moz-firebird i am unabled to use it for > minutes (!) until it reacts on user events (typing inet adress into > address bar), same for gaim. > i checked the ata settings; the drive is running in udma66 (as > expected). > > cause i am new to *bsd i do not really know where to start or what > further information to provide. any hint/idea would be great ! At any time during the above, did you recompile your kernel? If so, comment out these options from your kernel config and recompile again: options INVARIANTS options INVARIANT_SUPPORT options WITNESS options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN -sc -- Sean Chittenden