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From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
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* Chris Dionissopoulos (dionch@freemail.gr) wrote:

> But looking more carefully I found that I can reproduce PANIC anytime
> using command:
> 
> mail# sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=1596
> 
> -- where 1596 is valid Hz option as shown in:
> dev.cpu.0.freq: 1862
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1862/89000 1629/77875 1596/63546 1396/55602 1197/47659 997/39716 798/31773 598/23829 399/15886 199/7943

It looks like you're running acpi_throttle, which I've seen cause
problems before.  Try adding:

hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"

To /boot/device.hints so you're left with just the powernow frequencies
(assuming this is an AMD64, going by the 89W max TDP).

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
    http://hur.st/