From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 03:42:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB51316A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:42:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from onix.netpar.com.br (onix.netpar.com.br [200.103.225.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F8C43D4C for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:42:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cbraga@desnormal.com.br) Received: from [200.103.254.184] (unverified [200.103.254.184]) by onix.netpar.com.br; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 01:47:53 -0200 Message-ID: <41B7C99D.9060504@desnormal.com.br> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 01:42:21 -0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa References: <41B79A84.5010909@desnormal.com.br> <20041209003713.GA26248@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <41B7A740.2040601@desnormal.com.br> <6.2.0.14.0.20041208201757.054b2bc8@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20041208201757.054b2bc8@64.7.153.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3R crashing repeateadly X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:42:25 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"