Installed Netbeans on my laptop to give it a test drive, and between top and the massive change in performance in flock, I can’t help but think that my system is in pain as it fights with flock for system resources :
last pid: 2235; load averages: 2.04, 1.50, 1.00 up 0+01:08:22 03:52:09
86 processes: 4 running, 81 sleeping, 1 stopped
CPU: 83.8% user, 0.0% nice, 16.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle
Mem: 298M Active, 18M Inact, 96M Wired, 12M Cache, 53M Buf, 1888K Free
Swap: 860M Total, 100M Used, 760M Free, 11% Inuse
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
2195 Terry 30 44 0 387M 137M ucond 0:00 77.25% java
1498 Terry 1 99 0 715M 139M RUN 25:43 13.87% flock-bin
1358 root 1 44 0 119M 63776K select 1:56 0.00% Xorg
1403 Terry 1 45 0 18616K 4796K select 0:51 0.00% gkrellm
1504 Terry 1 0 0 715M 139M linuxf 0:19 0.00% flock-bin
1500 Terry 1 0 0 715M 139M linuxf 0:04 0.00% flock-bin
1499 Terry 1 44 0 715M 139M select 0:03 0.00% flock-bin
1477 Terry 1 44 0 30940K 6832K select 0:03 0.00% Terminal
1887 Terry 1 44 0 34752K 8020K select 0:02 0.00% xchat
1174 root 1 44 0 3264K 564K select 0:02 0.00% moused
1404 Terry 1 44 0 45900K 2944K select 0:01 0.00% pidgin
1402 Terry 1 44 0 14280K 2256K select 0:00 0.00% fbpanel
1509 Terry 1 0 0 715M 139M linuxf 0:00 0.00% flock-bin
1405 Terry 1 44 0 9080K 1340K select 0:00 0.00% blackbox
1515 Terry 1 0 0 715M 139M linuxf 0:00 0.00% flock-bin
1481 Terry 1 20 0 4640K 0K pause 0:00 0.00%
1399 Terry 1 44 0 8172K 724K select 0:00 0.00% bbkeys
The fact that I’ve got flash7 running in one tab and only a small set of 5 tabs open in flock, ain’t that bad I guess. It seems that my system has almost adapted to this load, because the stats in top have gotten even worse but FreeBSD has gotten almost as responsive as normal when running these programs.
I love my darlin’ Dixie 😉