Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:53:34 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken APIC on my laptop or bug in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1216508014.2172.5.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <87mykd5wsl.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <87prpcjrsk.fsf@kobe.laptop> <1216501388.971.6.camel@RabbitsDen> <87mykd5wsl.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 01:33 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:03:08 -0400, "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 21:20 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> After booting with the APIC enabled, I found out that: > >> > >> * In single user mode, after `boot -sv', I can keep working without > >> any major slow down. > >> > >> * When I exit single user mode, and a few of the rc.d startup scripts > >> run, the laptop becomes progressively slower, and eventually crawls > >> to an unusable state. I can almost complete logging in as `root' in > >> ttyv0 but only if I keep furiously moving the mouse around. If I > >> don't move the mouse at all, the typed characters may never actually > >> appear on ttyv0. > > > > Are you by any chance using cx_lowest="C3" (or "LOW") in your rc.conf? I > > have seen these symptoms (including mouse inducement of the typed > > characters) when cpu0 on my laptop went to C3. Nowadays I have C3 on > > cpu1 and C2 on cpu0 and life is good. Then again, I am running RELENG_7 > > (which AFAICR was 7-CURRENT at the time), so YMMV. > > Ah, good point. I have indeed performance_cx_lowest="LOW" in rc.conf. > > I'll remove that and try again with the APIC enabled... > And here is more verbose description of what I have experienced, so you can decide for yourself, whether is is similar or not: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=90726+93671 +/usr/local/www/db/text/2008/freebsd-acpi/20080224.freebsd-acpi -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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