From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 18 8:17:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C0D154E5 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 08:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA89989; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:19:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:19:33 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Hay Cc: Peter Wemm , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users! In-Reply-To: <199904181451.QAA73581@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, John Hay wrote: > > John Hay wrote: > > > > As of a few minutes ago, a minimal set of changes to bring the so-called > > > > 'new-bus' functionality to the i386 kernel in -current. > > > > > > > > > > It looks like the stat clock isn't started after this. I have tried a SMP > > > and UNI kernel and both behave the same. Looking with vmstat -i and > > > systat -vmstat, there is no sign of the stat clock. Sysctl kern.clockrate > > > also have profhz and stathz as 100. A kernel of about a week ago doesn't > > > have this problem. > > > > Hmm... > > > > [7:38pm]~-103# sysctl kern.clockrate > > kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 10000, tickadj = 5, profhz = 1024, > > stathz = 128 } > > > > Ok, I have found it. My kernel still had the apm line from its GENERIC > days, which didn't hurt me before: > > device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x31 # Advanced Power Management > > It seems that the disable keyword is ignored, because the apm0 device > suddenly appeared in the probe messages and that set statclock_disable to 1. > I have removed apm from my kernel config file and all is well again. This should be fixed. I changed the apm driver to honour the disabled keyword. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message