Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:54:44 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Richard G. Roberto" <thedoors@lepen.pair.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU usage goes way up on 5.1 when memory is added Message-ID: <20040123235444.GB93595@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401231804250.11832@lepen.pair.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401231804250.11832@lepen.pair.com>
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--zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:07:20PM -0500, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I've been running 5.1-RELEASE for quite some time on my dual PIII 333Mhz > Micron PC with 384MB of RAM and 670MB of swap. Its a little low on memory > for what I'm now doing with it though, so I added 256MB of RAM. The new > RAM gets recognized, and there are no obvious errors on the console or in > the logs, but every little thing drives the CPU utilization through the > roof and the system is unusable. Even just typing "man ls" triggers it, > never mind trying to run ssh. I remove the RAM, and it goes back to > normal. How are you trying to measure this? Have you tried reverting to a GENERIC kernel to isolate one of your non-default options that may be causing the problem (or measurement artefact)? Kris --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAEbREWry0BWjoQKURAqEBAKDVhZVKQuuLKPWpaeHrgAJIeExosQCggL0B T8odKrjRb3013zP8gZ+FPQk= =Hd60 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O--
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