Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:33:35 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current is sluggish Message-ID: <43ED30DF.9000609@savvis.net> In-Reply-To: <200602110128.50618.max@love2party.net> References: <43ED294A.2050505@savvis.net> <200602110128.50618.max@love2party.net>
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[...] >>the laptop is >> >>CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU) >> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6d8 Stepping = 8 >>Features=0xafe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC >>A,C MOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE> >> Features2=0x180<EST,TM2> >> AMD Features=0x100000<NX> >>real memory = 1073549312 (1023 MB) >>avail memory = 1041309696 (993 MB) >> >>and not loaded - just X, couple of xterms, firefox and thunderbird. > > Are you using powerd? Maybe the laptop is just "bored" and powerd scales down > frequency too aggressive? no, that is not it. no powerd or any other explicit power control. the laptop is in the docking station and pretty much acts as a desktop workstation. >>does anyone see anything similar or its just me? > > I see it too, but only when the laptop is sitting idle for a while and powerd > scaled down to 75Mhz. You can try to put some load on it (e.g. yes(1)) and > see if that improves things. have not tried this, but booting with acpi disabled fixes things for me. thanks, max
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