Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:50:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Sykes <matt-sykes@excite.com> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 0.00% CPU for all processes Message-ID: <174272.1003179053903.JavaMail.imail@patti.excite.com>
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:06:17 +0200 (SAT), John Hay wrote: > > > I don't know. If this patch ever do go in, it will probably > > > have to be protected with a "#ifdef BROKEN_P2L97-DS" or > > > something similar. > > > > And, since I still have a broken FreeBSD kernel, how do I to > > > > fix it? Am I just out of luck with this motherboard? > > > Well if you are brave enough, you can try my patch. :-) If you > > > see the message "Disabled Device 13 trap SMI for access to RTC > > > chip" during the boot phase, you will know that it did execute > > > the code in the patch. > > Hey thanks alot, I'll give it a try. > > Before I do, a few questions: can you give me the exact line of > > your kernel config file for device apm0 (which flags enabled or > > disabled)? Or do you not use device apm0 in kernel config? Is > > apm enabled or disabled in the bios? What is your > > kern.timecounter.method? Which bios revision (I only have access > > to 1.005 and 1.008)? > I don't have physical access to the machine at the moment, it is at > work, but IIRC the bios is ver 1.008 and apm was disabled. I don't > have apm in the kernel and it is using the PIIX timecounter and I > set it to 3580676. Looks like it works! In top, cvsup gradually comes up to about 40%, stays there a while, then disappears (I couldn't think of another longish process to test with). I guess that's correct. Before it would start at 2% then quickly go back to 0%. dmesg says "Timecounter 'PIIX' frequency 3579545"; I guess that's alright. One thing which surprises me, though --- all other processes are zero. Is this normal? This is my first time seeing FreeBSD run. I have an identical box here running linux (and each box runs a minimum of services), where at least top will show nonzero CPU percentage in top, usually around 0.5%. Does linux have more fine-grained timing, or is it cheating, or does the margin of error render this test essentially meaningless anyway? Thanks. --Matt _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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