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Date:      Thu, 09 Dec 2004 01:42:21 -0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?= <cbraga@desnormal.com.br>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly
Message-ID:  <41B7C99D.9060504@desnormal.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20041208201757.054b2bc8@64.7.153.2>
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Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the 
BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a 
core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half 
the size of the RAM and the handbook says I needed one swap partition 
with at least the same size, and I don't have the time to fiddle with 
partitions now.

Thanks for the help,

Cristóvão

Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 08:15 PM 08/12/2004, Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote:
>
>> I've disabled SMP with the kern.smp.disabled=1 sysctl and I'll see 
>> what happens next. Strangely though the kernel seems to think the 
>> system has only one cpu despite it being hyperthreaded:
>
>
> You want to turn HT off in the BIOS.  The scheduler will not make use 
> of it, and in fact will most likely hurt performance.
>
>         ---Mike
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