Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:34:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@jaunt.chuckr.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smp instability Message-ID: <14838.18086.224614.149206@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010242225480.6421-100000@jaunt.chuckr.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010242225480.6421-100000@jaunt.chuckr.org>
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Chuck Robey writes: > I'm having rather extreme problems with stability on my dual PIII > setup. I know this is to be expected, but it's gotten so extreme on my > system, I can't spend more than a few minutes before it locks up. > > Is there any chance that I could make things better by using a sysctl to > tell the box it's now a single-cpu system? I can't read man pages at the > moment (I'm composing this on my Sparc Ultra-5) so if this might work, and > someone knows the exact command to use, I'd appreciate a bit of help. Try "sysctl -w machdep.smp_active=0". It's not clear how much good this will do since you'll still be running an SMP kernel. Please let us know how that works. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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