From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 14:55:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F86116A403 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:55:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sepotvin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0C313C4A6 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:55:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sepotvin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.0.0.136] ([67.70.237.74]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0JEH008OVIO6X7I0@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:55:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:55:24 -0500 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" In-reply-to: <45ED5B15.9010602@KeithPitcher.com> To: Keith Pitcher Message-id: <45ED72CC.7000206@FreeBSD.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <45ED5B15.9010602@KeithPitcher.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: slow unless the CPU is in use 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:55:19 -0000 Keith Pitcher wrote: > I have a HP Pavilion dv6258, which has an amd turion X2. > Installed current as of yesterday, and noticed something quite odd. > > Things are pokey slow, hit a key and wait a second or more for it to > appear on the screen. Long load time,takes forever to shut down all the > processes, as a whole it's crawling. However if the system is doing > almost anything, like compiling a port or recompiling the kernel, or > just downloading a file during a port, then things are what I'd consider > a normal response. I recompiled the kernel and removed all the various > debugging options, same symptoms. > > I recompiled with SMP removed, the kernel no longer finds 2 CPUs, but > the same issue. > > This was a 6.2 to 7 upgrade (using mergemaster, etc), I haven't tried to > a straight current install as of yet. Any suggestions on what I should > try to correct this behavior? > > Thanks, > > Keith > > What is the value of the hw.acpi.cpu_cx_lowest sysctl node? If it's different from C1, try to force it to C1. If it fixes your problem, could you make available somewhere a verbose dmesg boot, the asl of you system (see acpidump(8)) and the output of "sysctl hw.acpi" and "sysctl dev.cpu" so I can have a look at it? Regards Steph