From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 10:11:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9D716A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:11:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odot.okladot.state.ok.us (odot.okladot.state.ok.us [192.149.244.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45CE43D2D for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us) Received: from notes9c.okladot.state.ok.us (notes9a.okladot.state.ok.us [10.36.36.31])MAA71976; Thu, 6 May 2004 12:11:36 -0500 Received: from techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us ([199.27.9.37]) by notes9c.okladot.state.ok.us (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.12) with ESMTP id 2004050612121163:11548 ; Thu, 6 May 2004 12:12:11 -0500 Received: by techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us (Postfix, from userid 0) id 1ADEA5CB5; Thu, 6 May 2004 12:11:35 -0500 (CDT) To: From: "Paul Seniura" Errors-To: "Paul Seniura" Sender: "Paul Seniura" Message-Id: <20040506171135.1ADEA5CB5@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:11:35 -0500 (CDT) X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on Notes9c/ODOT(Release 5.0.12 |February 13, 2003) at 05/06/2004 12:12:11 PM,2003) at 05/06/2004 12:12:12 PM, Serialize complete at 05/06/2004 12:12:12 PM Subject: this Puny Pentium2 suddenly became 45% slower! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Seniura List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 17:11:37 -0000 Hi y'all, Last week this Puny Pentium2 measured correctly at around 448MHz. Today's kernel+modules show it as about 202MHz. Snipped from today's dmesg: [...] FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Thu May 6 10:06:55 CDT 2004 root@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us:/usr/obj/src/sys/IBM300SY_4BSD_Os Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel._IBM300SY_4BSD_Os/kernel" at 0xc08bc000. Preloaded elf module "/boot/modules/apm.ko" at 0xc08bc208. Calibrating clock(s) ... i8254 clock: 2634973 Hz 2634973 Hz differs from default of 1193182 Hz by more than 1% Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 201960124 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (201.96-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ff real memory = 402653184 (384 MB) [...] TSC timecounter disabled: APM enabled. Timecounter "TSC" frequency 201960124 Hz quality -1000 [...] I know -Current is currently messin' with the timers. But this ain't near right as it stands with the latest CTM deltas. ;) It is causing premature timeouts when waiting for some background tasks before bringing up the ttyv's. The snip below only shows on the console (not in dmesg or messages etc.): [...] Starting syslogd. May 6 11:33:57 techpc04 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel._IBM300SY_4BSD_Os/kernel syslogd: timed out waiting for child Setting date via ntp. 6 May 11:34:11 ntpdate[387]: step time server 192.149.244.21 offset -0.480758 sec Starting rpcbind. [...] Not sure if this is going to affect other timers (main use is for development; I don't run much other stuff). (BTW we _hafta_ use APM; the latest ACPI changes haven't fixed IBM Crystal Sound[tm] yet; I'll do-up another post on that if needed, already sent bios dumps to acpi-jp@ quite some weeks ago.) Anything I can do to help... -- thx, Paul Seniura.