Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:18:24 -0500 (EST) | From | Greg Patterson <> | Subject | Pre7: XFree86 3.3.2 + pII + High loadavg/Context Switching |
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With 2.2.0pre7 I noticed that my system (upon boot up) has a loadavg of about .85-1.00 when I have XFree86 3.3.2 running and basically doing nothing.
The first thing I noticed was that "exec wmaker" in my .xinitrc file was now creating a zombie shell process until I killed X. I assumed at first this was the reason for the loadavg sitting around 1.0 on the system. Changing my .xinitrc to simply run "wmaker" fixed the zombie process (though I dont recall seeing this in any other pre-2.2 releases) but the loadavg was still hovering around 1.0 (or slightly less).
When I run vmstat 1 1000000 I see the (cs) field (context switch) jumping from ~110 to 20k or 25k or 30k every other second. Switching back to pre6 has eliminated this problem.
The system I am having this problem on is a ASUS P2B, pII 450Mhz, 128Mb DIMMs, AHA-2940UW with a mix of EIDE and SCSI devices. The kernel is compiled as "PPro or Pentium II" using MTRR and gcc 2.7.2.3.
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