Re: Dramatic mysqld slowness when running compiles in parallel

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <200807171356.39961.sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>,
Sverre Froyen  <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've changed the subject and I'm also copying pkgsrc-users.
>
>With i386 current (4.99.69) I am seing a dramatic slowdown in mysqld speed 
>whenever the server (actually my Thinkpad T42 laptop) is also running 
>compilations.  Here's an example:
>
>Inserting 65 records into a table normally takes 0.04s (real time).  If I am 
>doing a make in /usr/pkgsrc/shells/bash at the same time, it can take more 
>than 5s!
>

Can you run "vmstat 1". Are you swapping or paging? how about a ktrace -t A/
kdump -R?

Have you tried http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/pdaemon.diff

christos