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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:59:31 -0700
From:      Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fatal trap 18
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On 9 Nov 2010, at 8:24 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 09/11/2010 17:22 Dan Allen said the following:
>>=20
>> On 9 Nov 2010, at 8:11 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>=20
>>> /boot/loader.conf contents
>>=20
>> This might be the smoking gun!
>>=20
>> cat loader.conf:
>>=20
>> 	hint.apic.0.disabled=3D"1"
>=20
> Yes, it is.
> So why do you have it and what happens if you remove it?

Well, there is good news and bad news.

The good news is that if I remove this hint the machine boots with 2 =
CPUs.

The bad news is that I get lots of:

  CPU0: local APIC error 0x40
  CPU1: local APIC error 0x40

messages and the machine is very unresponsive.  Every keystroke has a =
second or two of delay.  It really is unusable.

If memory serves I had to turn off APIC in order to see both CPUs at =
some time in the past.  However, at some time in the past I had both =
CPUs and did not have the severe unresponsiveness that I get without =
this hint.

So with APIC I get both CPUs but an unusable config.  Without APIC I =
have one CPU but things are lively.

What next?

Dan





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