Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:35:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: james@ehlo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, aaron-fbsd@mutex.org Subject: Re: CPU states at 0.0% on 3.2-R SMP box ? Message-ID: <199906151535.KAA00220@aurora.sol.net>
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> this is a problem with an rtc interrupt being lost, which apparently wedges > up all further rtc interrupts. i solved it by searching the mailing list > archives and located this post: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=54158+0+archive/1999/freebsd-smp/19 > 990607.freebsd-smp > > (in case the URL doesn't work for some reason it's by bob wilcox from may > 20, the patch is supposedly from tor egge(?) and it patches clkintr). > > once i applied the patch i never saw any weirdness. > > apparently this is a temporary workaround? can somebody explain more fully? > what cost am i paying for a patch named "BROKEN_RTC_KLUDGE"? > > Aaron Smith I would advise that you first try adding the line device apm0 at isa? flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management to your kernel config. I was one of the people with a flock of P2B-DS's that exhibited this behaviour, and on the machines I've done this on, it has magically fixed itself. (I'd attribute this to somebody but I forget who recommended it) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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