From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 20 12:17:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA03703 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:17:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03687 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:17:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@cdsnet.net) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA05088 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:17:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:17:36 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Serious performance issue with 2.2.5-RELEASE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I upgraded my web server to 2.2.5 from 2.2.2-stable, dated sometime in July. Big mistake. The only update to take place was the make buildworld, make installworld, no other configuration files were modified, nor any changes to startup scripts, etc. I now get these weird pauses where everything on the machine just freezes for 30-40 seconds, sometimes longer. NFS is compiled in, but not in use. The system was a web server, and was happily serving up several hundred domains. Now with the upgrade, I'll be lucky to keep them. Not good. It's a Super Micro P6, 384MB RAM, 2 SCSI disks off a bus-logic controller. Any ideas appreciated. I have built a new kernel from sources supped 11/7, but it doesn't seem to be any better.