Hey guys,
I recently updated to FreeBSD 7 and noticed that my box started to
perform as windows does under heavier loads. The mouse starts to be
jerky when compiling, window updates/redraws are slow and bump the CPU
usage up to 100%. I attributed this to the mga driver which comes with
the distro in the beginning. However, I later noticed the same happens
even when X has not been started. For instance, I start a kernel compile
and the console mouse becomes jumpy. All these have never happened
before with FreeBSD on this box. It has enough memory (1.5G) and
relatively fast CPU (2.5GHz). I started to think this may be originating
from kernel level (irq handling, long times in giant locked code during
syscalls, etc).
I am wondering whether it is only me who has hit this problem or it is
more common. It may be also related to hardware configuration, etc. I'm
trying to figure out.
Attaching my dmesg output in case it's important.
Yani
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FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz (2539.10-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf27 Stepping = 7
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
Features2=0x400CNXT-ID
real memory = 1610547200 (1535 MB)
avail memory = 1564446720 (1491 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: IntelR AWRDACPI
ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 19:59:27)
acpi0: IntelR AWRDACPI on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 10, 5fef (3) failed
Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0
cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
p4tcc0: CPU Frequency Thermal Control on cpu0
acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0
pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0
agp0: Intel 82845G host to AGP bridge on hostb0
pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: PCI bus on pcib1
vgapci0: VGA-compatible display mem
0xe400-0xe5ff,0xe600-0xe6003fff,0xe700-0xe77f irq 16 at
device 0.0 on pci1
uhci0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 16 at
device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 19 at
device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci1: [ITHREAD]
usb1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 18 at
device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci2: [ITHREAD]
usb2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb2
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0: Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xe910-0xe91003ff
irq 23 at device 29.7 on pci0
ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ehci0: [ITHREAD]
usb3: EHCI version 1.0
usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
usb3: Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0
usb3: USB revision 2.0
uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb3
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
uhub4: vendor 0x0424 product 0x2502, class 9/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 on uhub3
uhub4: single transaction translator
uhub4: 2 ports with 1 removable, self powered
uhub5: vendor 0x0424 product 0x2602, class 9/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 3 on uhub4
uhub5: multiple transaction translators
uhub5: 4 ports with 3 removable, self powered
umass0: Generic Flash Card Reader, class 0/0, rev 2.00/4.44, addr 4 on uhub5
umass1: Sony DRX-830UL, class 0/0, rev 2.00/4.72, addr 5 on uhub3
pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2
rl0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xe900-0xe9ff
irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci2
miibus0: MII bus on rl0
rlphy0: RealTek internal media interface PHY 0 on miibus0
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:30:1b:ac:d2:33
rl0: [ITHREAD]
fwohci0: VIA Fire II
