From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 02:50:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F301065671 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:50:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBCA8FC20 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:50:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so592080mue.3 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:50:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=8FYrSL8OFJCcacnukNH374wRY9bomI2Cup6ESetQDAc=; b=G3ajSKZEpMAdmQCfQnahP3pb0TRNxVYbn0SgonkQX8esHA9DD7GhpvNxI954ZqjrNB UcUqC8pCDz9HQh/Yz4RZ51iYwG4H/dcjs+tVDJoqKtk70+PXQQRP3q2Wo0DrD8/VYhAB CypiGfE9v5EV1z5MwkyEA8Bx0hSjfFQkXdEuk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=cM/74iRKPfTDGviWpLtsL5pbjGDo9Bjmbm8shNbKdGGtMgVe9oCtFN4OK36P27f4QZ p74Whuw5h3JAWA/rLk4T9WxawXYFvfnGLjlNpLb+gKDYul7xNr50ROoYymWInv8AwMJf NZBpBb1yiQzXL95MwWo88A89T0CueLuuxLCgE= Received: by 10.103.49.12 with SMTP id b12mr683359muk.65.1221877422565; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.231.14 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:23:42 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: "Benjie Chen" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Interrupts issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:50:35 -0000 On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Benjie Chen 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