From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 21 00:51:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9F916A46B for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C6B13C44B for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:51:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (heho.snv.jussieu.fr [134.157.184.22]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id lAL0pUdV056687 ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:51:30 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 168 Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.13.3/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id lAL0pTND015336 ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:51:29 +0100 (MET) Received: (from arno@localhost) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id lAL0pSDa015333; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:51:28 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from arno) To: Kris Kennaway References: <098550E8-78BE-497D-BBB6-964A50059AF4@antiope.com> <47406E17.5010702@FreeBSD.org> From: "Arno J. Klaassen" Date: 21 Nov 2007 01:51:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <47406E17.5010702@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:51:31 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/4856/Wed Nov 21 00:19:47 2007 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 47438112.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: Gregory Wright , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, joao@matik.com.br Subject: Re: Crash after trying powerd on FreeBSD 7.0BETA-2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:51:34 -0000 Kris Kennaway writes: > Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > > Gregory Wright writes: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I tried enabling powerd on FreeBSd 7.0BETA-2 by adding > >> > >> powerd_enable="YES" > >> > >> to /etc/rc.conf. The mobo is a Tyan 2882-D with a single Opteron > >> 270 HE processor (dual core), 2 GB RAM. AMD powernow was > >> enabled in the BIOS. > > I never succeeded in using cpufreq on any 288x MB. If freezes > > box even with latest bios. > > Have you tried disabling acpi_throttle? yes; but quite a long time ago; didn't make a difference those boards go rather low in their minimal frequency (about 200-300Mhz if not even lower) and in at least 8 steps; acpi_ppc, which works for me, seems to take into account only the four most powerfull states (about 1Ghz being minimal then) might be a "piste" Arno PS, while here, and totaly unrelated, rev 1.252.2.7 (MFC "un-neede singl-threading code") of kern_fork.c to releng_6, seems to break things for me in a 4-way SMP (twice dual-core) amd64_releng6 box when forking procs in java. I'll triple-check before once again sending a bogus problem email but I got plenty of strange things when upgrading a production box to recent releng_6 (for sake of testing ata-promise TX4 patch), which disappeared after reverting to 1.252.2.6. fyi