From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 14:04:56 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 9C33216A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:04:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu (mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C87A43D3F for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:04:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu) X-Envelope-From: koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu X-Envelope-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.96.70]) by mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.7/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i23M1Gq09304; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:01:16 -0600 Received: from sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i23M1H5D035159; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:01:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu) Received: (from koziol@localhost) by sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i23M1CgE035158; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:01:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol) From: Quincey Koziol Message-Id: <200403032201.i23M1CgE035158@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200403032252.12666.adridg@cs.kun.nl> To: Adriaan de Groot Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:01:12 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99f (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 22:04:56 -0000 [ PGP not available, raw data follows ] > -----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 5.2.1 > > 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