From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 13:52:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEFA16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BD543D2F for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:52:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adridg@cs.kun.nl) Received: from odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] (helo=localhost) by pandora.cs.kun.nl (8.12.10/3.66) with ESMTP id i23LqCb9026502; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:52:13 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:52:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.51 References: <200403032101.i23L1aRx034841@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200403032101.i23L1aRx034841@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200403032252.12666.adridg@cs.kun.nl> cc: Quincey Koziol Subject: Re: freebsd-amd64 Digest, Vol 39, Issue 3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:52:15 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 March 2004 22:01, Quincey Koziol wrote: > with ACPI disabled), I'm back to the same behavior as when I boot the 5.2= =2E1 > CD-ROM itself - the system is _glacially_ slow, taking many, many minutes > to make progress in booting and making interactive use (at the console, > since network connections always time-out) extremely difficult. Remember, glaciers are retreating at record speed, so glacial is a relative= =20 term :) > Is this a general symptom of amd64 machines that others have seen?=20 > Would disabling "INVARIANTS" or "WITNESS" in the GENERIC kernel build hel= p? I've got -CURRENT GENERIC here, with=20 options DDB # Enable the kernel debugger options INVARIANTS # Enable calls of extra sanity=20 checking options INVARIANT_SUPPORT # Extra sanity checks of internal=20 struc tures, required by INVARIANTS options WITNESS # Enable checks to detect deadlocks= =20 and cycles options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN # Don't run witness on spinlocks fo= r=20 sp in addition, my make.conf sets -g for everything, so the whole system is bu= ilt=20 with debugging all the time. It runs smoothly. =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFARlOMdqzuAf6io/4RArCkAJ9ZOtZSBwdKzlNEp33vA4H3XPxbtwCgkISa nj1eG5m3N/ZCkzDRHrwvHjQ=3D =3DGXnc =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----