Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:14:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Arjan Van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timecounter problems on 5.3 - things take twice as long Message-ID: <20041204161351.F434@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <d86b4873041202105422e501a2@mail.gmail.com> References: <d86b4873041202105422e501a2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Arjan Van Leeuwen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a weird problem on a dual Xeon 550MHz system running > 5.3-RELEASE. Everything takes twice as long as it should. > > Example: > winston% time sleep 2 > sleep 2 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.006 total > > The same for pings, the scsi delay when booting, etc. The time of the > system itself doesn't seem to be affected (but maybe ntpd takes care > of that). I tried changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl from > ACPI-safe to TSC and i8254, but that didn't help. TSC isn't available on SMP systems. Its possible one of the CPUs is damaged, though. > Any other suggestions on how to fix this? Do I have to provide more > information? 'vmstat -i' output would be handy. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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