From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 19:14:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F449106566B for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:14:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean@chittenden.org) Received: from mail01.lax1.stackjet.com (mon01.lax1.stackjet.com [174.136.104.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665528FC19 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop-sean-wifi.local (173-228-12-60.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net [173.228.12.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sean@chittenden.org) by mail01.lax1.stackjet.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 49AAA3E8BBD for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:05:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Chittenden Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_AF3457B5-41AC-49AA-8BC4-8E137E0FB62F"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:05:37 -0700 Message-Id: <5D318981-A5A9-44AB-A079-B2A900365E87@chittenden.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) Subject: HPET broken on Dell 1950's? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:14:51 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_AF3457B5-41AC-49AA-8BC4-8E137E0FB62F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have an old Dell 1950 that I've rescued from Linux and tossed a copy = of -STABLE on it, but am seeing a constant 0.5 load average. With the = system completely idle, and kern.eventtimer.timer=3DLACPI, the load = drops to the expected value of zero. This feels like it should be an FAQ, but short of noting that the load = is non-zero, is there a programatic way to determine if the event timer = is "broken?" The system was functioning just fine, but it always had a = constant load even when doing absolutely nothing. ? FreeBSD ops05.internal 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #3: Tue Jul = 24 17:56:59 UTC 2012 = root@ops05.internal:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.flags: 3 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.frequency: 14318180 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.quality: 450 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.flags: 3 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.frequency: 14318180 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.quality: 440 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.flags: 3 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.frequency: 14318180 kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.quality: 440 kern.eventtimer.choice: HPET(450) HPET1(440) HPET2(440) LAPIC(400) = i8254(100) RTC(0) kern.eventtimer.timer: HPET kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 749769877 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950 kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-1000) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) i8254(0) = dummy(-1000000) dev.hpet.0.%desc: High Precision Event Timer dev.hpet.0.%driver: hpet dev.hpet.0.%location: handle=3D\_SB_.HPET dev.hpet.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=3DPNP0103 _UID=3D0 dev.hpet.0.%parent: acpi0 -- Sean Chittenden seanc@FreeBSD.org --Apple-Mail=_AF3457B5-41AC-49AA-8BC4-8E137E0FB62F Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAlAO8gIACgkQTrydwWwuXhYnrQCfcjPa+oZ9ATyrk2rprO64mvbc MBwAn3lbkjleQ4TOduJq7HOENXSvanYz =N2GT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_AF3457B5-41AC-49AA-8BC4-8E137E0FB62F--