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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:25:01AM +0100, Chris wrote:
> 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?

I believe kib@ has posted about it before, please check the archives.

Kris