From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 3 2:14:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from netvalue-gw.netvalue.fr (netvalue-gw.netvalue.fr [195.115.44.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEE737B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 02:14:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bin@localhost) by netvalue-gw.netvalue.fr (8.9.3/8.8.8) id LAA28115 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:14:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from erwan@netvalue.com) X-Authentication-Warning: netvalue-gw.netvalue.fr: bin set sender to using -f Received: from (dauphine.netvalue.fr [192.168.1.13]) by netvalue-gw.netvalue.fr via smap (V2.1) id xma028112; Sun, 3 Dec 00 11:14:24 +0100 Received: from mail-hk.netvalue.fr ([192.168.100.13]) by mail.netvalue.fr (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4880 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:14:23 +0100 Received: from erwan.netvalue.fr ([192.168.100.100]) by mail-hk.netvalue.fr (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G4ZLOM00.UBE for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:12:22 +0800 Received: from netvalue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by erwan.netvalue.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D6219D9 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:14:20 +0800 (HKT) Message-ID: <3A2A1CFB.783676B5@netvalue.com> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 18:14:19 +0800 From: Erwan Arzur Organization: NetValue Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, fr-FR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: CPU heratically disappearing at each boot ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been for a long time witnessing this rather strange behaviour without ever figuring out how it would happen. I'm using a DELL laptop (Latitude XP) with broken APM and a very recent stable FreeBSD. Mergemaster is ran at each build/installworld and the kernel is compiled after installworld (all made while in single user mode). From time to time, at reboot, top and various CPU-utilization tools based on libkvm simply stop to work properly, while other figures about the load average and so, can still be displayed appropriately. I would say that i get this CPU disappearing thing 9 times out of ten. I can reboot without doing anything on the system, and it will reappear until the next reboot ... I've been going through a lot of research without ever catching it ... Rebuild libkvm ? nope. kvm_updatedb ? (seems out of date ? it's not in the rc scripts anymore ...) nope. I really feel dumb ... Did any of you go into that ? I could really live without it, but i don't like having tools that i can't use without any real clue about why ... Thanks in advance ! last pid: 486; load averages: 2.03, 1.46, 0.72 up 0+00:07:01 18:06:25 61 processes: 1 running, 60 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 41M Active, 41M Inact, 23M Wired, 72K Cache, 35M Buf, 144M Free Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 435 erwan 2 0 22344K 18164K select 0:15 0.00% 0.00% communicator 385 root 2 0 22248K 21616K select 0:06 0.00% 0.00% XF86_Mach64 419 erwan 2 0 7536K 6868K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% xemacs-21.1. 400 erwan 2 0 4200K 3728K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% wmaker 175 root 2 0 2092K 1356K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd 196 root 2 0 884K 500K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% moused 415 erwan 2 0 2404K 1828K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xscreensaver 420 erwan 10 0 1568K 1044K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% wmmixer 422 erwan 10 0 1716K 1216K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% wmitime 423 erwan 10 0 1632K 1128K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% wmnetselect 421 erwan 10 0 1712K 1336K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% wmpinboard 462 erwan 2 0 1868K 1244K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% imapd ... -- Erwan Arzur NetValue ltd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message