Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:23:06 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only 50% idle with current -current? Message-ID: <199809221423.QAA15764@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199809200851.QAA05006@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Sep 20, 98 04:51:41 pm"
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This did it, by doing it like this I can get the persentage idle to below 50%...... But why??? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za > John Hay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have updated our one SMP box to the latest -current and now I see on top > > that it doesn't go below 50% idle anymore. I'm doing a make release and > > for a while ran two rc5's, but it still stayed at 50% idle. I remember > > someone else also noticed it a few days ago. > > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Yes, just try booting "-s" and go into single user mode to start with. > > Give a few commands, eg: 'sync; sync; sync', do a fsck if it's needed and > then start multiuser.. > > If it then works as expected, then I suspect you are seeing a > manifestation of a long running problem. > > I've found that SMP and/or ELF are unhappy at boot under SMP (and have > been for 12 months). If I have /usr/libexec/getty dynamically linked and > have more than a couple enabled in ttys, I get a lockup. The same happens > if running rc5des/rc564 from the rc scripts if I don't go into single user > and run a few commands first. > > At the time I hacked init(8) to do a couple of fork/exec's at startup and > the problem went away. I don't understand what's going on and spent a > fair while last year trying to figure it out. I'm pretty sure it's not > ELF itself, it's just triggering something else. > > > John > > -- > > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > > > > Cheers, > -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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