Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:19:35 -0500 (CDT) From: bill schaub <talon@hancock.k12.mo.us> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: you may be intrested in this strange problem i found in 2.2.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980730155818.9652D-100000@hancock.k12.mo.us>
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im running 2.2.1 on a 386 for a web and email server ive run 2.2.1 on many diffrent type of machenes and never had this problem but when i decided to use an at&t 6386 /33 wgs system things got really strange really fast the only difffrence i cna see from this machene and others is that it has a real fpu on it the problem is after the system is runnign for a while it stops reporting the cpu useage for any process and systat dies with the alternate system clock has died now reverting to "pigs" display iostat keeps reporting a bogus reading of 92 % idle 3 % user 3% system and 2% interrupt witch is bogus sicne it stays the same even when compileing the kernel im suspecting the fpu chip but since i remotely admin the system at the moment i cant really turn it off to see if useing emulation would solve the problem sigh and id really like to just hack the npx code to work aorund this problem if the fpu is wired strange if ANYONE can help please mail talon@hancock.k12.mo.us i have kernel source online and id be willing ot give anyone a shell to help me in troble shooting this very strange problem witch i know must be hardwhare related i know i dont have good grammer skills but i am not a total moron ive ben useing freebsd for abotu 3 years now and even read the original 4.3 bsd supumentary documents for fun i just am totaly confused with this problem that ive never seen before andi dont understand c and how the freebsd kernel interacts with the hardwhare to even begin to fix this problem thats what brought me here you dont see things like this happen every day so if anyone is intrested in doing some really intresting hacking jsut mail me id love this opertunity to leanr mroe about freebsd internals and will be lurking on this mailing list for a while i also knwo thta a lot of you are thinking get new hardwhare but wheres the leanrign experence in that i want to force this machene to run problerly wether it likes it or not thats that having the os source is all about after all cya later -talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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