Hi Youzhong,

That was my line of thought when I have the first crash - unfortunately, the 
BIOS/firmware was already up to date.
Would have been an easy fix, though ;)

Adam

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 22:49, Youzhong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> We resolved similar issue by upgrading BIOS.
> 
> Sent from my iPod
> 
>> On Sep 23, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Adam Richmond-Gordon 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I (seem to) remember some time ago that the general advice was to disable 
>> power management where possible. Is this still correct, or have I been 
>> imagining this all along?
>> 
>> I recently took delivery of a box with an E5 v4 CPU, and SmartOS would panic 
>> on boot due to expecting the `mwait` CPU feature. I have managed to get the 
>> box to boot by allowing C0-C2 states, but it is somewhat unstable.
>> Although I do think this is quite likely to be a hardware issue, which CPU 
>> power management features can SmartOS actually take advantage of, and what 
>> is recommended?
>> 
>> I plan to open an RMA for the box next week, but it’s probably worth making 
>> sure that my running configuration is actually valid, first.
>> 
>> If memory serves me correctly, the CPU and board firmware can support a 
>> variety of C-, T- and P-states, amongst other features that either aren’t 
>> selectable or don’t exist on other hardware I have.
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
> 
> 


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