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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 2014 11:21:31 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>
Cc:        =?UTF-8?Q?Jan_Kokem=C3=BCller?= <jan.kokemueller@gmail.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
Subject:   Re: Fresh current (r269328) amd64: high load average while idle, slow keyboard reaction
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmon95tjMW-KKxKT4PKnboG31GZrir-cuqZKSvEOO5YmgYQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140801181800.GA18604@mouf.net>
References:  <20140731142100.GP92036@heechee.tobez.org> <53DA6727.7080702@gmail.com> <20140731162227.GQ92036@heechee.tobez.org> <20140801181800.GA18604@mouf.net>

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Hi!


On 1 August 2014 11:18, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
>> Jan,
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:56:23PM +0200, Jan Kokem=C3=BCller wrote:
>> > On 31.07.2014 16:21, Anton Berezin wrote:
>> > >At the console, depressing and holding a key does not lead to auto-re=
peat.
>> > >
>> > >At the console, sometimes a key only appears on the terminal after an=
other
>> > >key is pressed.
>> >
>> > Maybe this is a problem caused by a misdetected clock source? I've had=
 this
>> > problem as well.
>> >
>> > Try to set kern.timecounter.hardware and/or kern.eventtimer.timer to o=
ther
>> > settings that are listed in kern.timecounter.choice and
>> > kern.eventtimer.choice, such as HPET which works great for me.
>>
>> Setting both to HPET certainly helped the LA.  I cannot check the keyboa=
rd
>> input until tomorrow, but chances are that it is indeed the fix.
>
> Just wanted to throw in another datapoint, I had this issue too and setti=
ng
> kern.eventtimer.timer=3DHPET alone solved it for me.

Please throw this into a bug report ticket and poke mav@ about it.



-a



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