Manuel Giraud: > Everyday around noon, I'm updating /usr/src, /usr/xenocara and > /usr/ports with a "cvs up" from the mirror: > [email protected]:/cvs > > This update takes up to one hour but more worrying is that in the > meantime, the machine is barely usable. I guess that this is mostly due > to IO but I don't know how to debug this.
Very odd. I checked out a copy of the ports tree with tag OPENBSD_7_9 from the mirror above, then ran "time cvs -q up -AdP": 12m30.58s real 1m06.30s user 3m12.08s system The machine I used was a lowly PC Engines APU2. I also had systat(1) running. Early I/O and CPU was at 0.3 and 80% idle. There were I/O peaks of up to 0.7 sec, but much of the update proceeded at I/O 0.1 and CPU 90% idle. So even on a slow machine this doesn't take much CPU and the I/O load isn't overwhelming. Unless you are running this on an actual spinning disk drive? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
