Experiences with RELENG_7

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> 
>>> Roland Smith wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:44:21AM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>>> 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?
>>>> 
>>>> I'll save some top output next time. But what happened was this; all of
>>>> a sudden the mouse pointer started moving erratically, and the music
>>>> playing in audacious started skipping. All other X programs started
>>>> responding erratically as well. It looked like the X server wasn't
>>>> getting any CPU time.
>> I can see that happening during portupgrade on my 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 
>> 7.0-BETA1 #0: Sat Oct 27 04:15:22 CEST 2007 amd64 UP-machine as well. 
>> Situation has been improved by using
>> SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD .
>
> Yes, so this is a different problem again.  People have reported this problem 
> with 4BSD, but I don't think it is understood.  Just to confirm, since we're 
> discussing ULE here do you see this problem with ULE?
Yes, but as I said, ULE works better than 4BSD.

Uli.
>
>>>> It also happened with cc1 when I was compiling a port. In that case the
>>>> situation returned to normal when that particular instance was
>>>> finished. That compilation was running in a terminal window that was
>>>> iconified at the time.
>>> 
>>> This may be unrelated.  The new version of gcc has higher memory 
>>> requirements, and it is common for it to access swap during compilation 
>>> when the system is also busy running other tasks.  If you see it happening 
>>> with cc again, make sure to check this.
>> My swap space remains untouched, I have got 2 GB of RAM.
>> 
>> Is there - perhaps - some way to tune down gcc's CPU greediness?
>
> That isn't really the right solution :)
>
> Kris
>
>



Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany