From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 29 16: 6:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1604037B403 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 38346 invoked by uid 100); 29 Aug 2001 23:06:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15245.30093.982879.843700@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:06:53 -0500 To: Alex Varju Cc: Mike Meyer , Subject: Re: Freezes in 4.4RC on SMP Kernel In-Reply-To: <20010829155138.F60349-100000@snapple.webct.com> References: <15245.28607.676147.717891@guru.mired.org> <20010829155138.F60349-100000@snapple.webct.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered from top posting.] Alex Varju types: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Chynnee types: > > > ok, this might be a shot in the dark, but... > > > i have the Asus P2B-D and i was having weird problems > > > when using ACPI. Apperently the P2B-D wasnt made to > > > support ACPI correctly. Asus happily reworked the board > > > and it is fully functionaly. > > Let me add another SMP freeze. This is on a Supermicro motherboard. If > > I turn off gkrellm, the freezes stop happening. I've been turning > > monitors back on slowly and seeing if they restart. > Considering that you've seen problems with this, it seems worth mentioning > that I also have gkrellm running all the time. I have the following > monitors enabled: Clock, CPU, Disk (composite), Network (xl0), Mailcheck, > and Uptime. I've been running that set with Proc and the memory monitors for the last couple of days with no problem. Since the freezes normally happen in a few hours, I suspect those aren't the problem. > > At this point I suspect that one of the plugins is buggy and tweaking > > the sensor in some way. I turned on sensors this morning, and have had no problems since. Trying the plugins sans sensors is the next step. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message