Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/11/2011 04:33, Alexander Motin wrote: On 11.05.2011 08:17, Doug Barton wrote: I had an interesting result doing nothing but switching from HPET to LAPIC ... no crash. Still on the same version of -current (r221566) the only thing I've done is to add kern.eventtimer.timer=LAPIC to

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/11/2011 04:33, Alexander Motin wrote: On 11.05.2011 08:17, Doug Barton wrote: I had an interesting result doing nothing but switching from HPET to LAPIC ... no crash. Still on the same version of -current (r221566) the only thing I've done is to add kern.eventtimer.timer=LAPIC to

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-11 Thread Alexander Motin
On 11.05.2011 08:17, Doug Barton wrote: I had an interesting result doing nothing but switching from HPET to LAPIC ... no crash. Still on the same version of -current (r221566) the only thing I've done is to add kern.eventtimer.timer=LAPIC to /boot/loader.conf, and so far I haven't been able to

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-10 Thread Alexander Motin
Hi. On 10.05.2011 05:05, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:29:25AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: On 10.05.2011 02:48, Doug Barton wrote: Ok, so kern.eventtimer.timer=LAPIC in /boot/loader.conf should do that, right? Yes. You can do it in run-time also. Not quite

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/05/2011 05:05 Jason Hellenthal said the following: Alexander, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:29:25AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: On 10.05.2011 02:48, Doug Barton wrote: Ok, so kern.eventtimer.timer=LAPIC in /boot/loader.conf should do that, right? Yes. You can do it in run-time

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-10 Thread Jason Hellenthal
Alexander, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:05:04AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: Hi. On 10.05.2011 05:05, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:29:25AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: On 10.05.2011 02:48, Doug Barton wrote: Ok, so kern.eventtimer.timer=LAPIC in

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-10 Thread Doug Barton
I had an interesting result doing nothing but switching from HPET to LAPIC ... no crash. Still on the same version of -current (r221566) the only thing I've done is to add kern.eventtimer.timer=LAPIC to /boot/loader.conf, and so far I haven't been able to get it to crash no matter how much I

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-09 Thread Alexander Motin
On 10.05.2011 02:48, Doug Barton wrote: I would start from most obvious problems. I need to know more about crashes. As usual: how to trigger, stack backtraces, etc. Triggering is easy, I can start a buildworld with -j2, and a build of ports/www/firefox with FORCE_MAKE_JOBS, and within 30

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-09 Thread Jason Hellenthal
Alexander, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:29:25AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: On 10.05.2011 02:48, Doug Barton wrote: Ok, so kern.eventtimer.timer=LAPIC in /boot/loader.conf should do that, right? Yes. You can do it in run-time also. Not quite absolutely sure here but IIRC the last time

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-09 Thread Doug Barton
New symptom, today (still running r221566) I compiled a small port, that worked without any freezes or interactivity problems. Then I tried compiling a larger port (java/openjdk6 if anyone cares) and still no interactivity problems, but I got the system wedge requiring power cycle problem I was

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/05/2011 13:55, Alexander Motin wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Alexander suggested some knobs to twist for the timers, and I'll be glad to do that once he gets back to me with more concrete suggestions now that he knows more about my specific problems. OK, I am all here. While this post is

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-07 Thread Alexander Motin
Doug Barton wrote: On 05/05/2011 13:55, Alexander Motin wrote: I see several possibly unrelated problems there: - crashes are always crashes. They should be debugged. - calcru going backwards could have the same roots as lost wall clock time. I think you're right about that. What

My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-05 Thread Doug Barton
This is long, sorry. I wish I could condense things down to just the answer, or even just the question, but here goes. I've used HEAD on my main workstation(s) for many years. It's common for there to be ups and downs, and that's fine. Lately however the problems have been debilitating. First

Re: My problems with stability on -current

2011-05-05 Thread Alexander Motin
Doug Barton wrote: Alexander suggested some knobs to twist for the timers, and I'll be glad to do that once he gets back to me with more concrete suggestions now that he knows more about my specific problems. OK, I am all here. While this post is indeed larger then previous, it is not much