Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:02:33 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Magnus Gr|nlund <magnus@ludd.luth.se> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Slooow SMP on Tekram P6B40D-A5. Message-ID: <XFMail.990421120233.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199904201349.PAA16241@speedy.ludd.luth.se>
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On 20-Apr-99 Magnus Gr|nlund wrote:
> I just got myself an new Tekram motherboard (and two modified Celerons).
>
> Apperantly there is a known bug in the bios that can make
> dual-operation slower than single.
>
> At first I tried a 4.0-current kernel from late february, which worked OK.
> But today i decided to sync up to a "current" current, cvsup:ed and built
> a new kernel (throwing away the old one.) and got bitten. :-(
Well, I just updated recently too, and I'm having this problem as well..
Its a bit like doing make -j 16 buildworld in the background :(
[guppy 11:39] /usr/src/sys > grep Index: /tmp/kernel-0904-1304.diff | wc -l
110
Bleh! :(
132k of diff's between the last time I updated my kernel.
There where changes to SMP code during that time, so I guess thats it..
I'll try and find a date closer to which its broken (ie checkout different
kernel sources)
---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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