Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:01:12 -0600 (CST) From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-amd64 Digest, Vol 39, Issue 3 Message-ID: <200403032201.i23M1CgE035158@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200403032252.12666.adridg@cs.kun.nl>
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> 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 5.2.1
> > 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
> term :)
:-)
> > Is this a general symptom of amd64 machines that others have seen?
> > Would disabling "INVARIANTS" or "WITNESS" in the GENERIC kernel build help?
>
> I've got -CURRENT GENERIC here, with
>
> options DDB # Enable the kernel debugger
> options INVARIANTS # Enable calls of extra sanity
> checking
> options INVARIANT_SUPPORT # Extra sanity checks of internal
> struc
> tures, required by INVARIANTS
> options WITNESS # Enable checks to detect deadlocks
> and
> cycles
> options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN # Don't run witness on spinlocks for
> sp
>
> in addition, my make.conf sets -g for everything, so the whole system is built
> with debugging all the time. It runs smoothly.
Hmm, what motherboard are you using? I've got an MSI K8T Master-FAR2 in
this system. Is anyone out there successfully using this motherboard with
FreeBSD 5-CURRENT?
I'm rebuilding with a stripped-down GENERIC config that eliminates lots of
unnecessary hardware controllers, possibly that will fix it...
Thanks,
Quincey
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