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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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