Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 10:49:12 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current locks my machine frequently Message-ID: <199802010019.KAA00775@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:59:29 CDT." <19980131185929.04618@scsn.net>
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> On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 10:14:05AM +1030, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > No, you're definitely not the only one :-(
> > >
> > > John Dyson made some changes last night that I had hoped would finally
> > > fix the problem, but I just had the machine lock up again a few minutes
> > > ago. It always seems to occur when X is running (usually when Netscape
> > > starts to swap heavily).
> >
> > Odd; I'm running -current on a very memory-short laptop, under X, using
> > netscape/emacs/exmh, and it thrashes pretty solidly but certainly
> > hasn't fallen over yet.
> >
> > I *have* noticed these odd pauses where all filesystem activity seems
> > to block for a few seconds (maybe 10 or so). It's not disk spin-up
> > either. This includes procfs activity, so I can't use ps to find out
> > what's going on.
>
> Is your laptop a P5 machine? I know that John has expressed the opinion
> that this problem seems to be specific to P5s.
I don't know of any P6 laptops, and I wouldn't want to think about
running this load on a 486, so yes, I guess it is. 8)
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FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Jan 31 01:50:16 CST 1998
mike@word.smith.net.au:/local0/build/src/sys/compile/WORD
CPU: Pentium (132.63-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
avail memory = 14258176 (13924K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=1179 device=0601)> rev 0x23 on pci0.0.0
vga0: <Chips & Technologies model 00e4 VGA-compatible display device> rev 0xc2 on pci0.4.0
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 not found at 0x280
mss_probe: no address supplied, try default 0x530
mss_detect - chip revision 0x0a
pcm0 at 0x530 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0xa200 on isa
mss_attach <mss>0 at 0x530 irq 5 dma 1:1 flags 0xa200
psm0 at 0x60-0x64 irq 12 on motherboard
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 not found at 0x2f8
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <TOSHIBA MK1403MAV>, 32-bit, multi-block-16
wd0: 1376MB (2818368 sectors), 2796 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1502BN/1001>, removable, accel, dma, iordy
wcd0: 1722Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 255 volume levels, ejectable tray
wcd0: no disc inside, unlocked
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa
ppc0: Generic chipset in PS/2 mode
nlpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
apm0 flags 0x31 on isa
apm: found APM BIOS version 1.2
PC-Card Intel 82365 (5 mem & 2 I/O windows)
pcic: controller irq 3
Initializing PC-card drivers: ed sio
Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround
Card inserted, slot 0
Card inserted, slot 1
ed0: address 00:40:c7:64:0c:61, type NE2000 (16 bit)
sio1: type 16550A
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