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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



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