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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:47:48 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.org, sterling@camdensoftware.com
Subject:   Re: CPU time accounting broken on 8-STABLE machine after a few hours of uptime
Message-ID:  <20100929074748.GB83194@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <201009290739.o8T7dnol061377@gw.catspoiler.org>
References:  <20100929070017.GA82362@icarus.home.lan> <201009290739.o8T7dnol061377@gw.catspoiler.org>

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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:39:49AM -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 29 Sep, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 
> > Given all the information here, in addition to the other portion of the
> > thread (indicating ntpd reports extreme offset between the system clock
> > and its stratum 1 source), I would say the motherboard is faulty or
> > there is a system device which is behaving badly (possibly something
> > pertaining to interrupts, but I don't know how to debug this on a low
> > level).
> 
> Possible, but I haven't run into any problems running -CURRENT on this
> box with an SMP kernel.
> 
> > Can you boot verbosely and provide all of the output here or somewhere
> > on the web?
> 
> <http://people.freebsd.org/~truckman/AN-M2_HD-8.1-STABLE-verbose.txt>;
> 
> > If possible, I would start by replacing the mainboard.  The board looks
> > to be a consumer-level board (I see an nfe(4) controller, for example).
> 
> It's an Abit AN-M2 HD.  The RAM is ECC.  I haven't seen any machine
> check errors in the logs.  I'll run prime95 as soon as I have a chance.

Thanks for the verbose boot.  Since it works on -CURRENT, can you
provide a verbose boot from that as well?  Possibly someone made some
changes between RELENG_8 and HEAD which fixed an issue, which could be
MFC'd.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
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