From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 11:48:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C840D106566C for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:48:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail5out.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 846E48FC13 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:48:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail5out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C22DB2218A25; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:47:59 +1000 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <489AE0EF00003C5D7DD880@BarNet> Received: from mail5auth.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail5auth.barnet.com.au", Issuer "*.barnet.com.au" (verified OK)) by mail5.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8470E21B4A86; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:47:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (ppp121-44-11-180.lns10.syd7.internode.on.net [121.44.11.180]) by mail5auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F0A2218951; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:47:59 +1000 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 472A724A; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:47:06 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:47:06 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Gerrit K?hn Message-ID: <20080807114706.GA3286@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Gerrit K?hn , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20080807132947.061d24eb.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080807132947.061d24eb.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regression 7.0R -> 7-stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 07 Aug 2008 11:48:00 -0000 On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:29:47PM +0200, Gerrit K?hn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a rather new FujitsuSiemens Esprimo here with an AMD Phenom X3 > processor (triple core is somehow strange :-) and a lot of NVidia stuff > onboard. I installed 7.0-R, which ran quite well except for the bge driver > and snd_hda which both complained. > After putting in an extra networking card I was able to install some more > software and all appeared to be nice. Then I cvsupped to the recent > 7-stable as of today. My hope was that maybe the bge or the sound card > would improve from this. However, the new kernel I compiled does not run > at all. It boots up to CPU#1 and CPU#2 lauchned messages and then sits > there and does nothing anymore. I have verified this behaviour with amd64 > snapshot images from July and August to make sure I did not compile a bad > kernel. Both show the same behaviour. > Are there any ideas what has changed from 7.0-R to recent 7.0-stable that > could cause this? What can I do to debug/fix this? Make sure you have this in your /etc/sysctl.conf: [~] edwin@k7>grep hyper /etc/sysctl.conf machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 Then with top you can see the CPUs in use ----------v PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 69200 edwin 9 44 0 236M 130M ucond 0 33:37 5.76% seamonkey-b 3317 edwin 1 71 0 38404K 33572K select 1 3:51 0.10% mutt 3015 edwin 1 45 0 403M 81672K select 0 101:52 0.00% Xorg Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/