From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 31 17:23:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16714 for current-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:23:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp7.portal.net.au [202.12.71.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16694 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:23:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00775; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 10:49:14 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199802010019.KAA00775@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dmaddox@scsn.net cc: Mike Smith , Peter Mutsaers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current locks my machine frequently In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:59:29 CDT." <19980131185929.04618@scsn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 10:49:12 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" > On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 10:14:05AM +1030, Mike Smith wrote: > > > No, you're definitely not the only one :-( > > > > > > John Dyson made some changes last night that I had hoped would finally > > > fix the problem, but I just had the machine lock up again a few minutes > > > ago. It always seems to occur when X is running (usually when Netscape > > > starts to swap heavily). > > > > Odd; I'm running -current on a very memory-short laptop, under X, using > > netscape/emacs/exmh, and it thrashes pretty solidly but certainly > > hasn't fallen over yet. > > > > I *have* noticed these odd pauses where all filesystem activity seems > > to block for a few seconds (maybe 10 or so). It's not disk spin-up > > either. This includes procfs activity, so I can't use ps to find out > > what's going on. > > Is your laptop a P5 machine? I know that John has expressed the opinion > that this problem seems to be specific to P5s. I don't know of any P6 laptops, and I wouldn't want to think about running this load on a 486, so yes, I guess it is. 8) Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Jan 31 01:50:16 CST 1998 mike@word.smith.net.au:/local0/build/src/sys/compile/WORD CPU: Pentium (132.63-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12 Features=0x1bf real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) avail memory = 14258176 (13924K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x23 on pci0.0.0 vga0: rev 0xc2 on pci0.4.0 Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 not found at 0x280 mss_probe: no address supplied, try default 0x530 mss_detect - chip revision 0x0a pcm0 at 0x530 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0xa200 on isa mss_attach 0 at 0x530 irq 5 dma 1:1 flags 0xa200 psm0 at 0x60-0x64 irq 12 on motherboard psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 not found at 0x2f8 fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 1376MB (2818368 sectors), 2796 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, accel, dma, iordy wcd0: 1722Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 255 volume levels, ejectable tray wcd0: no disc inside, unlocked ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa ppc0: Generic chipset in PS/2 mode nlpt0: on ppbus 0 nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus 0 npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface apm0 flags 0x31 on isa apm: found APM BIOS version 1.2 PC-Card Intel 82365 (5 mem & 2 I/O windows) pcic: controller irq 3 Initializing PC-card drivers: ed sio Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround Card inserted, slot 0 Card inserted, slot 1 ed0: address 00:40:c7:64:0c:61, type NE2000 (16 bit) sio1: type 16550A -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\