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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:44:21 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Experiences with RELENG_7
Message-ID:  <4723CD55.5090307@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071027202252.GA40377@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20071027202252.GA40377@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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Roland Smith wrote:
> Hovewer, sometimes a program seems to hog the CPU for a couple of
> seconds (as seen in top(1))

Can you please explain (with supporting paste of command output) what 
you mean by this?

> and interactivity suffers
> tremendously. Could this be the scheduler getting mixed up? This happened
> two times with graphics/telak, which I use to put update some graphs on
> my desktop every minute. In both cases I killed the program. But it also
> happened one time with cc1 during compilation of a program.

This is usually caused by the system running out of memory and touching 
swap.  Have you ruled this out?

Kris



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