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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 1998 06:54:51 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com, fn@radio-do.de, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weired top display at smp current kernel from today
Message-ID:  <199809240454.GAA20856@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199809221644.AAA08290@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Sep 23, 98 00:44:19 am"

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> Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com wrote:
> > 
> > Frank,
> > 
> > Are you by any chance running an ELF version of X? I experienced pretty
> > weird results over the past few days with and ELF X (built as per the port
> > mods posted to the list): a make world running under X would basically bring
> > the box to a halt, massive delays when typing characters on any of the other
> > VTs, etc... this is on a box with 384Mb RAM, SMP w/PPro 200/512 and more
> > than 256Mb free / no swap used, doing nothing else than the build.
> 
> Two things..
> 
> 1: There have been some clock tweaks in the last few days that might 
> affect this.
> 
> 2: Try (humor me :-) booting up into single user, running a few commands
> (eg: sync; sync; sync; fsck -p; ls) and then doing a ctrl-D to go into
> multi-user. 
> 
> If this (#2) is the key to making your system work properly, then you are 
> seeing the same problem I've been unable to put a finger on for ages.  
> None of the other SMP folks saw it, but only I was running ELF at the time.
> 
> Somebody else (John Hay) mentioned that this fixes his problem, but it's 
> not clear whether (or when) he's using elf.

Yes I'm using elf. I never saw it before I changed to elf. Another way I
found is to use an aout /sbin/init. These problems is on a dual 266MHz PII
with onboard adaptec scsi. Last night I upgraded our dual 400Mhz PII with
Intel N440BX motherboard (ncr scsi onboard) to elf and up to now it hasn't
displayed the same problems, but then I haven't rebooted it too many times
yet.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za

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