Hello
I have a printer attached to a parallel port on an old
Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. When I print large (> 100k) documents
the system responds very slow (1-3sec) to keyboard strokes or
mouse moves. I wonder if I can lower the priority of printing.
The details:
$dmesg
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FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Sep 14 10:40:41 BST 2006
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (233.34-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory = 167772160 (160 MB)
avail memory = 158879744 (151 MB)
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lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
Two typical outputs from top taken during printing:
last pid: 12387; load averages: 0.75, 0.44, 0.23 up 2+01:16:32 10:48:06
89 processes: 2 running, 63 sleeping, 23 waiting, 1 lock
Mem: 81M Active, 24M Inact, 37M Wired, 6940K Cache, 25M Buf, 3868K Free
Swap: 128M Total, 108K Used, 128M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
18 root 1 -60 -179 0K 8K *Giant 15:09 77.05% irq7: lpt0
11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 48.0H 11.13% idle
12269 daemon 1 -8 0 10996K 8908K pipewr 0:27 6.15% gs
485 root 1 96 0 18064K 16668K select 6:30 0.00% Xorg
28 root 1 -32 -151 0K 8K WAIT 5:05 0.00% swi4: clock sio
and
last pid: 12388; load averages: 0.75, 0.44, 0.23 up 2+01:16:34 10:48:08
89 processes: 3 running, 62 sleeping, 24 waiting
Mem: 81M Active, 24M Inact, 37M Wired, 6940K Cache, 25M Buf, 3868K Free
Swap: 128M Total, 108K Used, 128M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
18 root 1 -60 -179 0K 8K WAIT 15:10 77.34% irq7: ppc0
11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 48.0H 10.89% idle
12269 daemon 1 99 0 10996K 8908K RUN 0:28 5.57% gs
40 root 1 171 52 0K 8K pgzero 0:35 0.15% pagezero
12270 daemon 1 -8 0 1184K 580K piperd 0:01 0.05% cat
485 root 1 96 0 18064K 16668K select 6:30 0.00% Xorg
28 root 1 -32 -151 0K 8K WAIT 5:05 0.00% swi4: clock sio
In the user manual I found about vm.swap_idle_enables kernel
variable. Is that something I should try?
thanks
anton
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