System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why

[Chris]

On 24/04/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:50:47PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> >
> > >It was almost certainly what I said above.  Too bad you weren't able
> > >to follow through with it.
> > >
> > >Kris
> >
> > Hi Kris,
> >
> > I was running the make depend for over 1 hour and it showed no end in
> > sight. I figured to run that to the finish and the full make it might
> > have taken all day so I really had no choice :)
>
> Odd, I suspect you were doing more than just building a kernel, which
> only takes a few minutes to build completely (even on a quota-enabled
> machine ;)
>
> > I will test this and see if it fixes the problem and confirm if this
> > is the culprit (or not).
> >
> > I am surprised to hear this is all a function of the Quota problem
> > you mention. I suppose nobody is using this anymore or is there a
> > better system being used?
>
> It's just a left-over from the post-4.x SMP rewrite that didn't get
> addressed until recently.  In the grand scheme of things quotas are
> relatively infrequently used, so it was a higher priority for the
> developers to work on other things first.  As I mentioned, fixing this
> performance problem with quotas has now been completed in 7.0 and it
> will probably make it back into 6.x before 6.3.
>
> Kris
>
>

Hi Kris please address this ASAP in 6.x, QUOTA is used quite often in
server environments probably more so then you believe.  Considering
6.x is pushed as a stable version of FreeBSD and 4.x was killed off
its dissapointing QUOTA was knowingly broken and left unpatched.

Chris