RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Anish Mistry wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>> Anish Mistry wrote:
>>> On Thursday 18 October 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>>>> Anish Mistry wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday 18 October 2007, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:28:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote:
>>>>>>> I just updated to RELENG_7 from 6.2 and I'm running into some
>>>>>>> really annoying issues with jerky mouse movement and skipping
>>>>>>> sound.  This seems to be similar to:
>>>>>>> Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow
>>>>>>> This happens both with 4BSD and ULE.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I seems to happen when I'm compiling ports and a new
>>>>>>> cc/bzip2/sh process fires off (I'm just watching top), I'll
>>>>>>> get the skip/freezeup.
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Using ULE and UP kernel (i.e. without SMP etc.) helped a bit
>>>>>> the things but it's still very annoying to use firefox during
>>>>>> ports build.  I see this lag/freeze on all boxes I use with
>>>>>> 7.0, but it's true that with a fast machine people can ignore
>>>>>> the problem, it's less obvious than with a 1GHz box for
>>>>>> example.
>>>>> Yeah, I'm still seeing this behavior.  Does anyone have
>>>>> suggestions on debugging?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>> I did post the solution in this thread.
>>> That doesn't solve the problem for me, so it seems that it's
>>> unrelated.  It's just not mouse and sound, everything freezes up
>>> for a bit.
>> Which suggested solution did you follow. Did you deactivate moused?
>> Did you configure Xorg to use the mouse directly. For me also the
>> whole system froze, but it did so because of the mouse.
> Both, moused is disabled, and Xorg is configured to use /dev/ums0.  
> I'm still seeing the same issue.  If I've got portmaster running an 
> upgrade I still get the freezes.

That's too bad, there seems to be a whole load of issues here.