Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:57:21PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Compiling FreeBSD's world with make -j2 was never a problem while playing >> sound or doing other work on screen - but this seems to be a big problem >> now, even when SCHED_4BSD is used! >> >> While compiling world mouse stops and jumps, sound gets distorted. I >> recognise thsi behaviour also when box is doing minor HD access: mouse >> pointer stops, keyboard input gets stuck, sound stops playing, window >> operations (opening/closing) seems to freeze. This got even worse whithin >> the last two weeks (date when it starts getting this worse unknown). >> This phenomenon occurs on both i386 and amd64 but is much worse on amd64. On >> AMD64 very short and small HD activities seems to trigger this 'jumping' and >> stopping. >> >> Both boxes are singel core CPUs, AMD64 is a Athlon 3500+, i386 is a HTT >> enabled P4 at 3.0 GHz. >> >> I do not get any error or system fault, simply this jumping and freezing. >> >> On both systems PREEMPTION is enabled in the kernel, but the problem also >> occurs without this option. >> >> Any ideas, suggestion, maybe explanations? >> > > Check for interrupt storms (vmstat -i). > > Kris > Already already checked, nothing suspicious ...
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