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Date:      Sun, 15 Jan 2017 13:03:21 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: TSC as timecounter makes system lag [-> jhb]
Message-ID:  <b5409ad8-c971-28c2-3f46-f09ac18a7a87@elischer.org>
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On 15/01/2017 10:11 AM, Jia-Shiun Li wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> since 2 or 3 weeks ago, I noticed that my old Penryn-based Intel Pentium
>> T4200 notebook lagged a lot. System time was running a lot slower,
>> sometimes even looked like it freezed. Keystroke repeat rate was slow too.
>>
>> Since system time is slow, I tried to change timecounter from default TSC
>> to HPET. And it resumed normal immediately.
>>
>>
> Did a binary search. Turns out it was caused by r310177 "Enable
> EARLY_AP_STARTUP on amd64 and i386 kernels by default." r310175 does not
> have this issue. Removing this option from kernel config also solves it.

making sure jhb notices this.
> -Jia-Shiun.
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