Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:20:37 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable Message-ID: <20051214222037.94FEF5D07@ptavv.es.net>
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I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. This system has been updated regularly from the days of at least 4.1. The hardware is a 1GHz PIII with an ICH2 chipset. 256 MB of memory. After the upgrade, the system performs poorly. Specifically, it seems to be blocking on I/O. If I have a dump or bsdtar running, a CPU intensive job produced minimal CPU utilization and little progress. The system is 70% or more idle all of the time. X is particularly sluggish. Many times the system will simply appear to be locked up for seconds at a time like all of the I/O is synchronous and the entire system is blocking on GIANT until the disk write finishes. A level 0 dump of the system drive piped through gzip and over the network took about 10 hours. Now it is 17 hours. My network link only ran at 3.4 Mbps (yes, that's bits, not Bytes) over a 100 Mbps connection to the storage server. The rate was much higher under 4.11. My attempts to track down the source of the problem simply failed. I have examined my kernel configuration and found nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, the the configuration varies from GENERIC only in devices (both added and deleted), dropping 486 and 586 CPU code and a larger SC_HISTORY. I have nothing in sysctl.conf and only enable DMA on my ATAPI devices in loader.conf. I have confirmed that the disks are running ATA100. Any suggestions on where to look? At this point I am baffled. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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