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To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: sys/i386/include spl.h 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Dec 1996 20:36:52 MST."
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 11:52:39 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>
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Steve Passe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is more like it,  my best time with older working kernel was 269:
> 
> % time make -j8
>  ...
>  271.22s real  414.10s user   87.29s system 
>  ^^^     ^^^^  ^^^     ^^^^
> 
> and the "jerkiness" is gone (again, now I remember we had this same symptom
> last time we played with 'autostart'...)

I still don't know what happened, I'd love to know what's going on.

I almost wonder if both cpu's were running as an exact mirror of each
other..

Anyway, this is what I hope to diagnose now that we have serial debugging
again.
 
> and I think the missing INTs are gone (hope I didn't just jinx that!)

Seconded.. :-)

Anyway, we're almost back to where we started from before the chaos,
except this time the code is #ifdef'ed and we have serial trace code
to debug it..

Cheers,
-Peter