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=0xbfebfbff
Features2=0x400
real memory = 1610547200 (1535 MB)
avail memory = 1564446720 (1491 MB)
ACPI APIC Table:
ioapic0 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: 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: on acpi0
p4tcc0: on cpu0
acpi_button0: on acpi0
pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: on pcib0
agp0: on hostb0
pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: on pcib1
vgapci0: mem
0xe400-0xe5ff,0xe600-0xe6003fff,0xe700-0xe77f irq 16 at
device 0.0 on pci1
uhci0: port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 16 at
device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0: on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: on usb0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 19 at
device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci1: [ITHREAD]
usb1: on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: on usb1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 18 at
device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci2: [ITHREAD]
usb2: on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: on usb2
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0: 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: on ehci0
usb3: USB revision 2.0
uhub3: on usb3
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
uhub4: on uhub3
uhub4: single transaction translator
uhub4: 2 ports with 1 removable, self powered
uhub5: on uhub4
uhub5: multiple transaction translators
uhub5: 4 ports with 3 removable, self powered
umass0: on uhub5
umass1: on uhub3
pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: on pcib2
rl0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xe900-0xe9ff
irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci2
miibus0: on rl0
rlphy0: PHY 0 on miibus0
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:30:1b:ac:d2:33
rl0: [ITHREAD]
fwohci0: port 0xc400-0xc47f mem 0xe9001000-0xe90017ff
irq 19 at device 7.0 on pci2
fwohci0: [FILTER]
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 8.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:30:1b:ac:00:00:d2:97
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 3 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: on fwohci0
fwe0: on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:30:1b:00:d2:97
fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:30:1b:00:d2:97
fwip0: on firewire0
fwip0: Firewire address: 00:30:1b:ac:00:00:d2:97 @ 0xfffe, S400, maxrec
2048
sbp0: on firewire0
dcons_crom0: on firewire0
dcons_crom0: bus_addr 0x14b4000
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: BUS reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: on isab0
atapci0: port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
pci0: at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pcm0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff,0xe400-0xe43f mem
0xe9101000-0xe91011ff,0xe9102000-0xe91020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on pci0
pcm0: [ITHREAD]
pcm0:
acpi_tz0: on acpi0
fdc0: port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FILTER]
sio0: <165
