Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:23:42 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Benjie Chen" <benjie@addgene.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Interrupts issues Message-ID: <e71790db0809191923pfd79a8eyc0414c9ec8e10663@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c53be070809190804s66742847pb832d7d3801231fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <c53be070809190804s66742847pb832d7d3801231fb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Benjie Chen <benjie@addgene.org> wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD hackers:
>
> I have two Dell workstations that I recently added FreeBSD 6.2 on. One
> is a Precision T3400, one is an Inspiron 530. Nothing fancy. Installed
> FBsd. Everything else is fine except both machines have interrupt
> storm issues: one core (both dual core) is 100% servicing interrupts.
> On the Precision, it's irq20 atapci, on Inspiron it's irq19 uhci. The
> other core is fine and both machines run well otherwise.
>
> I saw several recent posts on the net about some of these issues and
> did not find a resolution. It seems unlikely that it's just a ata or
> usb issue since both machines happen to have the same problem.
>
> Any thoughts?
Please provide the output of "dmesg" after a boot in verbose mode.
This may help the maintainers to understand your problem and give you
additional instructions.
Do you have any special reason to use FreeBSD 6.2? It is a rather old
version, so I'd suggest you to try 7.1 instead. There are prerelease
images available. Look at
http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
--
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean
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