From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 05:40:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCAAB16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 05:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6382043D41 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 05:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 23204 invoked from network); 19 May 2004 12:40:40 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 19 May 2004 12:40:40 -0000 Received: from slimer.baldwin.cx (slimer.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.16]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4JCea2a061576; Wed, 19 May 2004 08:40:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:15:47 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040518195146.88092.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040518195146.88092.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405190815.47604.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Nik Azim Azam Subject: Re: apic lockups X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:40:51 -0000 On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:51 pm, Nik Azim Azam wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having problem with the latest FreeBSD-CURRENT and > APIC. The system is an ALR 6x6 with 6 processors. > Booting with APIC makes the kernel freezes after > diplaying the timecounter message. Ctrl+Alt+Delete > doesn't work, I need to reset the computer. It works > fine if I boot without APIC. > > I tried doing 'set hw.apic.mixed_mode=0' at the loader > prompt and it doesn't work. > > -CURRENT with APIC dated on 4th of May works fine. > > I attach the dmesg and mptable output from -CURRENT > dated on 4th of May and the kernel output from the > latest kernel. Can you try booting with 'kern.smp.disabled=1' instead? It may be that FreeBSD is just not handling 6 processors well. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org