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

[Chris]

On 05/05/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:23:12PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Have you tested the 6.x patch?  It's easy to criticize the developers
> but harder to actually step up and help with the process yourself.
>
> Kris
>
>
Where is the 6.x patch?

thanks

Chris