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Date:      Sat, 06 Sep 2014 10:47:17 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Maxim V FIlimonov <che@bein.link>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cubieboard: Spurious interrupt detected
Message-ID:  <1410022037.1150.360.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <42729580.BghYiSHhz3@quad>
References:  <2279481.3MX4OEDuCl@quad>  <42729580.BghYiSHhz3@quad>

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On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 20:20 +0400, Maxim V FIlimonov wrote:
> On Saturday 06 September 2014 01:43:23 Maxim V FIlimonov wrote:
> > And another problem: every now and then the kernel says something like that:
> > Sep  5 19:22:37  kernel: Spurious interrupt detected
> > Sep  5 19:22:37  kernel: Spurious interrupt detected
> > Sep  5 19:23:46  last message repeated 10 times
> > 
> > I've heard that FreeBSD happens to do that on ARM devices. What could be the
> > problem here?
> 
> A small detail: when I turn off SMP in the kernel config, the message 
> disappears, but everything becomes too slow to operate.

Post the output of 'vmstat -i' -- it sounds like maybe there's an
interrupt handler monopolizing the system, or a timer that's firing at
way too high a rate, or something like that.

-- Ian





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