Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 06:54:51 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Cc: Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com, fn@radio-do.de, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weired top display at smp current kernel from today Message-ID: <199809240454.GAA20856@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199809221644.AAA08290@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Sep 23, 98 00:44:19 am"
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> Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com wrote: > > > > Frank, > > > > Are you by any chance running an ELF version of X? I experienced pretty > > weird results over the past few days with and ELF X (built as per the port > > mods posted to the list): a make world running under X would basically bring > > the box to a halt, massive delays when typing characters on any of the other > > VTs, etc... this is on a box with 384Mb RAM, SMP w/PPro 200/512 and more > > than 256Mb free / no swap used, doing nothing else than the build. > > Two things.. > > 1: There have been some clock tweaks in the last few days that might > affect this. > > 2: Try (humor me :-) booting up into single user, running a few commands > (eg: sync; sync; sync; fsck -p; ls) and then doing a ctrl-D to go into > multi-user. > > If this (#2) is the key to making your system work properly, then you are > seeing the same problem I've been unable to put a finger on for ages. > None of the other SMP folks saw it, but only I was running ELF at the time. > > Somebody else (John Hay) mentioned that this fixes his problem, but it's > not clear whether (or when) he's using elf. Yes I'm using elf. I never saw it before I changed to elf. Another way I found is to use an aout /sbin/init. These problems is on a dual 266MHz PII with onboard adaptec scsi. Last night I upgraded our dual 400Mhz PII with Intel N440BX motherboard (ncr scsi onboard) to elf and up to now it hasn't displayed the same problems, but then I haven't rebooted it too many times yet. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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