buildworld releng7 exterme performance loss

[Frank Staals]

Frank Staals wrote:
> Every 2 weeks or so I rebuild my sources on my laptop ( Dell Latitude 
> D630 ). Last wednesday I wanted to update my system again since it was 
> allready a couple of weeks ago I rebuilded my sources. There were no 
> abnormalities during the build/install. But when I restarted my system 
> the system performance was absolutely *horrible*. When I try typing 
> anything in a terminal window the lag is about 20 seconds before the 
> command even shows up. Switching ttys takes at least as long. When 
> logging in remotely the performance is better; giving a random command 
> through the ssh session sometimes even allows a command run on a 
> local-console to run/finish ( or at least thats what the screen shows ).
>
> Even trying to shutdown the system using shutdown -p now doesn't have 
> any effect: I get the message "System is going down NOW" but nothing 
> realy happens, I just get my prompt back and I can continue entering 
> commands. When I push the power-off button the system actually starts 
> shutting down but it stops at "Writing entropy file ."  leaving my 
> only choise to power off the system the hard way. When booting the 
> system to single-user mode however it reacts normally and also 
> shutting down works as it should
>
> Last 2 days I tried redownloading the sources from a different mirror 
> ( cvsup2.freebsd.org instead of cvsup.nl.freebsd.org ) to rule out 
> outdated/corrupted sources. But I still get the same  behaviour. 
> Gladly I still had my previous sources so I managed to restore my 
> system in a working state. Those sources are from about 3 weeks ago. 
> Does anyone know what could have caused this behaviour and how to fix 
> it ? Below is some system information, however I'm not sure what I 
> should provide to help out, if I should test something I'll gladly do.
>
> Working system (sources from about 3 weeks ago, rebuilded today  ) :
>
> frank at Rena# uname -a
> FreeBSD Rena.FStaals.net 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Fri 
> Feb  1 20:23:11 CET 2008     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RENAKERNEL  i386
>
> dmesg: http://fstaals.net/junk/rena/dmesg_old.txt
>
> With today's  ( 1 frebruary 2008 ) sources  :
>
> frank at Rena# cat /root/uname
> FreeBSD  7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Feb  1 18:32:59 
> CET 2008     frank at Rena.FStaals.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RENAKERNEL  i386
>
> dmesg: http://fstaals.net/junk/rena/dmesg_2008_01_02.txt
>
> Kernel config used for both the builds :
>
> http://fstaals.net/junk/RENAKERNEL.txt
>
Updated my sources again today. This time even build with a GENERIC 
kernel but still the same result. Is there nobody who can help me with 
this ?

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-Frank Staals