From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 12:53:04 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 C58BA16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu (mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B37543D39 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:53:04 -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 (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i24Kr1O11485; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:53:01 -0600 Received: from sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i24Kr25D021253; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:53:02 -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 i24Kr2ne021252; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:53:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol) From: Quincey Koziol Message-Id: <200403042053.i24Kr2ne021252@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200403040046.i240kgLn001980@bigtex.jrv.org> To: James Van Artsdalen Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:53:02 -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: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:53:04 -0000 > > From: Quincey Koziol > > Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:01:35 -0600 (CST) > > > > Ok, I managed to copy the source code off of the 5.2.1-RELEASE CD-ROM and > > (after hacking the makefiles a bit) build a new world & kernel. However, after > > installing the new kernel (and rebooting in single user, 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. > > This is not normal. Does the i386 CD do this too? Can you disable ACPI in the > system ROM setup? Hmm, I hadn't thought about the i386 CD, I'll see about trying that. I can't disable ACPI in the BIOS setup, unfortunately... > > Is this a general symptom of amd64 machines that others have seen? Would > > disabling "INVARIANTS" or "WITNESS" in the GENERIC kernel build help? Or, has > > this been addressed in 5-CURRENT and I just need the most recent source? > > Could anyone help me out by providing a .tgz of a recent /usr/src? > > Does your GENERIC enable WITNESS? I don't think it ships that way. When I re-built the kernel, it had WITNESS enabled, but I've since re-built without INVARIANT and WITNESS and that didn't help either. :-( Quincey