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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:44:57 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2
Message-ID:  <200609291644.58040.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1GTFkg-0001kP-SH@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
References:  <E1GTFkg-0001kP-SH@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>

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On Friday 29 September 2006 06:37, Pete French wrote:
> >    Attached is a simple user program that will immediately cause pretty 
much
> > all of the network drivers (at least the ones I own) to stop working and
> > get watchdog timeouts.
> 
> I am runnign this on a single processor machine with an SMP kernel and
> it does not have any effect. I dont tink I have any single processor
> machines running a non SMP kernel to try it on though. Not particularly
> helpful I know. I'll try building a non SMP kernel for this machine if I
> can. 

You can set kern.smp.disabled=1 from the loader to force UP with an SMP 
kernel.  No need to recompile.

-- 
John Baldwin



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