From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 26 14:58:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from keyser.soze.com (keyser.soze.com [194.165.93.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5551937B416 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:58:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from erg.verweg.com ([132.229.90.89]) by keyser.soze.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA24073 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 23:53:56 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ruben@localhost) by erg.verweg.com (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3) id XAA09483 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 23:58:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 23:58:25 +0100 From: Ruben van Staveren To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: symmetric multiprocessing: MPS 1.4 recommended ? Message-ID: <20011226235825.A9317@erg.verweg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 08:05:46PM +0100, Ruben van Staveren wrote: > > Same here, stability `improved' when stripping out USB and I2C support. > this all happend when I upgraded from RELENG_4_3 to RELENG_4 on last sunday. > I had resynced with RELENG_4 today, but no effect. > > dmesg and kernel config can be found on http://ruben.is.verweg.com/freebsd > > Motherboard is an ASUS P2B-DS. I've cvs'upped to 4.5-PRERELEASE recently to see if the problems went away. Stability seemed to have improved while running X but still those total lockups. There where no stability issues whatsoever when not running X. Now I did something completely different: I flashed my bios to version 1013 and turned on MPS 1.4 support. (It was bios rev# 1008B and MPS 1.1) has http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=7960+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-smp/20010603.freebsd-smp anything to do with it ? The system hasn't hung ever since... If it is truly recommended, is it worth mentioning it in for example the LINT or GENERIC kernel config files ? > > The system can run fine for a day, serving as gateway and firewall and > providing email and proxy for the home network. When running an interactive X > logon it runs for about a couple of hours before freezing up. sometimes the > machine comes back after a couple of minutes, only to freeze again later on. > > Some of the freezes happened while just browsing with mozilla, a make > deinstall of a port, or after an rm -rf /usr/obj. It is not reproducable > however: the system did compile and install a whole userland and kernel while > running an interactive X session Regards, Ruben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message