I have not been able to find any discussion of the following issue. Ever since I upgraded to release 7.0, whenever I print to my network printer (I am using Samba) I get the following output to ttyv0:
lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] lpt0: [ITHREAD] lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] lpt0: [ITHREAD] lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] lpt0: [ITHREAD] lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] lpt0: [ITHREAD] lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] lpt0: [ITHREAD] ... this can continue for a very long time depending on the size of the queue The actual printing is fine, and since I am rarely at the terminal it isn't a serious problem. In fact, if I am working at the server and someone else is sending jobs to the printer I switch over to ttyv1, so there is really no inconvenience. On the other hand, I thought that release 7 is GIANT_LOCK free, so this is rather unexpected. I would appreciate any information or explanation. In the printout below, you will note SMALLKERNEL7, this is just a paring down of the generic kernel to tailor it to my system. The behaviour I discuss above occurs with the default kernel as well. Thanks in advance and best regards, Alex Beros Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 12 14:10:45 PST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMALLKERNEL7 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel Pentium III (730.90-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMO V,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 469499904 (447 MB) avail memory = 449888256 (429 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: <GATEWA EA81510A> on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 100000, 1bf00000 (3) failed Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82815 (i815 GMCH) host to PCI bridge> on hostb0 pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib1 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"