From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 16:29:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6674E1065674; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:29:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA958FC16; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:29:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7d11.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.125.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF8612883F; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:07:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cesar.sz.vwsoft.com (cesar.sz.vwsoft.com [192.168.16.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B782E90F; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:05:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48D51FAF.70603@vwsoft.com> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:07:11 +0200 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1222531532.92582@d0hhFOVtOooT35kuwrMAgg X-MailScanner-ID: 31B782E90F.9D4F0 X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Benjie Chen , "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Re: Interrupts issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:29:02 -0000 On 12/23/-58 20:59, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Benjie Chen wrote: >> Hi FreeBSD hackers: >> >> I have two Dell workstations that I recently added FreeBSD 6.2 on. One >> is a Precision T3400, one is an Inspiron 530. Nothing fancy. Installed >> FBsd. Everything else is fine except both machines have interrupt >> storm issues: one core (both dual core) is 100% servicing interrupts. >> On the Precision, it's irq20 atapci, on Inspiron it's irq19 uhci. The >> other core is fine and both machines run well otherwise. >> >> I saw several recent posts on the net about some of these issues and >> did not find a resolution. It seems unlikely that it's just a ata or >> usb issue since both machines happen to have the same problem. >> >> Any thoughts? > > Please provide the output of "dmesg" after a boot in verbose mode. > This may help the maintainers to understand your problem and give you > additional instructions. > > Do you have any special reason to use FreeBSD 6.2? It is a rather old > version, ... 6.2 has already been EOL'd in May.