From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 28 1:44: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BB937B424 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kernighan.demon.co.uk ([194.222.151.76] helo=homebrew.kernighan.demon.co.uk) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13eZIK-0003p1-0W; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:43:56 +0100 Received: from localhost (njh@localhost) by homebrew.kernighan.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00762; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:43:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from njh@kernighan.demon.co.uk) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:43:54 +0100 (BST) From: Neil Hoggarth To: Nick Sayer Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UP kernel on SMP machine? In-Reply-To: <39D18AF8.D2FE4073@quack.kfu.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Nick Sayer wrote: > 2. Unless I comment out the psignal(p, SIGPROF); line in kern_clock.c, > spurious and seemingly random SIGPROFs are delivered as the rc scripts > are starting, which causes pandemonium. Hi Nick, This is probably not an SMP issue. Myself and several others have been having this sort of problem in 4-STABLE recently. Do you, by any chance, have a Qlogic SCSI card? http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=profiling+and+timer&max=25&sort=score&source=freebsd-stable The lastest post from Mark Rowlands suggests that he's had some success with a very recently CVSuped build, so the problem may be fixed ... Regards, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message