Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:35:23PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
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>>Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
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>>>Hi.
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>>>On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:40:53PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
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>>>>I wanted also to add that my mouse pointer hangs on X since the upgrade. 
>>>>So the computer behaves as if it was under heavy load even if the CPU 
>>>>usage is almost 0%
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>>>cpufreq/powerd? Did you check, your laptop runs at reasonable speed?
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>>>- Olli
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>>I am using the highest frequency all the time
>>dev.cpu.0.freq: 1997
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>Check for high interrupt rates with vmstat -i.
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>Kris
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vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq0: clk                         342175        953
irq1: atkbd0                         832          2
irq4: sio0                             1          0
irq7:                                  3          0
stray irq7                             3          0
irq8: rtc                          43826        122
irq9: iwi0 uhci1++                   124          0
irq11: nvidia0 pcm+                18037         50
irq12: psm0                         4164         11
irq13: npx0                            1          0
irq14: ata0                         5209         14
irq15: ata1                           82          0
Total                             414457       1154

I have noticed this error message on the console when I run X, I don't 
know if it can be related to the problem:
Error in ictl (sockfd): Device not configured