Hi,
I primarily use FreeBSD because I find it much quicker than the Linux counterparts and I enjoy the feel of it in general, however lately I have become a little frustrated at the way it simply doesn't do *anything* sometimes. I'll explain myself a little better - sometimes in the middle of a build, the build pauses and sits there, its not downloading anything, or performing any other activities - I open a second session and look at top and see I'm using 0.0% CPU across the board, no IO wait, etc. Same thing happens when updating ports, and there is other occasions as well, where the system appears simply to have taken a break from doing work, or where a build takes FOREVER when load is less than 0.10.
We have more than adequate hardware, and we have this so that it can be used to get things done quicker, not so we can have better load values. Is there any way I can make FreeBSD perform more aggressively? Or is there something I am missing here?
P.S. This occurs on all of my machines... Maybe its the kernel though? Perhaps something I have changed?
I primarily use FreeBSD because I find it much quicker than the Linux counterparts and I enjoy the feel of it in general, however lately I have become a little frustrated at the way it simply doesn't do *anything* sometimes. I'll explain myself a little better - sometimes in the middle of a build, the build pauses and sits there, its not downloading anything, or performing any other activities - I open a second session and look at top and see I'm using 0.0% CPU across the board, no IO wait, etc. Same thing happens when updating ports, and there is other occasions as well, where the system appears simply to have taken a break from doing work, or where a build takes FOREVER when load is less than 0.10.
We have more than adequate hardware, and we have this so that it can be used to get things done quicker, not so we can have better load values. Is there any way I can make FreeBSD perform more aggressively? Or is there something I am missing here?
P.S. This occurs on all of my machines... Maybe its the kernel though? Perhaps something I have changed?