Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-10 Thread bf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386 To: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], bf [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 2:13 PM On Thu, 9 Oct

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:51:02AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: [..] | CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (906.35-MHz 686-class CPU) | Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 | inittimecounter(0)... Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-09 Thread bf
--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386 To: bf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 1:12 AM On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:00:32PM -0700

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:00:32PM -0700, bf wrote: --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Oct 8 11:00:40 myhost kernel: t_delta 15.fd80bdcb75b60200 too short This comes from src/sys/kern/kern_tc.c,

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:51:02AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: I see bf has since posted these values, but I'd already clipped stuff from the original post with kernel config and verbose dmesg, already wondering why the two didn't match, like: | options HZ=1000 | options

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:51:02AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Well, I believe HZ was increased from 100 to 1000 long ago (RELENG_6?) as a default. I'm really not sure of the implications of decreasing it, besides having less granularity for some

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:19:47AM -0700, bf wrote: After updating to RELENG_7 i386 of this weekend, I have been having problems with my machine. When booting normally, the system slows or hangs at the login prompt. If I am able to continue past the prompt, I sometimes experience erratic

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-08 Thread bf
--- On Wed, 10/8/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386 To: bf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 2:36 PM On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:19:47AM -0700

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:00:32PM -0700, bf wrote: --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386 To: bf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday