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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:22:27 +0200
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To:        Jan =?utf-8?Q?Kokem=C3=BCller?= <jan.kokemueller@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fresh current (r269328) amd64: high load average while idle, slow keyboard reaction
Message-ID:  <20140731162227.GQ92036@heechee.tobez.org>
In-Reply-To: <53DA6727.7080702@gmail.com>
References:  <20140731142100.GP92036@heechee.tobez.org> <53DA6727.7080702@gmail.com>

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Jan,

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:56:23PM +0200, Jan Kokemüller wrote:
> On 31.07.2014 16:21, Anton Berezin wrote:
> >At the console, depressing and holding a key does not lead to auto-repeat.
> >
> >At the console, sometimes a key only appears on the terminal after another
> >key is pressed.
> 
> Maybe this is a problem caused by a misdetected clock source? I've had this
> problem as well.
> 
> Try to set kern.timecounter.hardware and/or kern.eventtimer.timer to other
> settings that are listed in kern.timecounter.choice and
> kern.eventtimer.choice, such as HPET which works great for me.

Setting both to HPET certainly helped the LA.  I cannot check the keyboard
input until tomorrow, but chances are that it is indeed the fix.

Thanks a bunch!
\Anton.
-- 
Our society can survive even a large amount of irrational regulation.
  -- John McCarthy



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