cvs performance and interrupts

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

I was able to start my faithful 715 again... after fixing disc issues 
(the SCSI cable went bad, I had to replace it with a similar one, but I 
long thought it was some other kind of HW issue and it took me a lot o 
tests).

I know that it is not the fastest box around anymore, however I run cvs 
update on pkgsrc and it took 12 hours to complete! I checked and the cpu 
usage with top and cvs was usually in biowait CPU state was 99% 
interrupt (or close to)

Is that "expected"? Or is there an issue in the ethernet or SCSI driver? 
I use other vintage hardware of that period and it is usually not that slow!

I checked "dmesg" and saw  no errors listed (like timeous or other 
issues). No messages at all after root mount, this looks reassuring.


Riccardo