So, the hint.apic.0.disabled=1 seems to have _significantly_ reduced the watchdog timeouts, but they are not completely gone, and the ones that are happening now seem to happen somewhat randomly. Browsing through the GUI does not seem to cause issues any more. I will continue with the SMP kernel testing tomorrow.
Dimitri Rodis Integrita Systems LLC http://www.integritasystems.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] ACPI/APIC in loader.conf - watchdog timeouts On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Dimitri Rodis <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you think this has any potential relevance to the firebox watchdog > timeouts? Obviously I am going to test it and simply observe the results-- > not too hard to reproduce the issue. > It could. > Also, there was a suggestion that using an SMP kernel would alleviate the > issue also. Given that this is a single core P3, I don't know what > difference it will make (obviously the kernel locking mechanisms are > different), but is there a way to easily swap the kernel on embedded with an > SMP version (if it isn't already--I don't know what the default is for an > embedded image since there isn't an "installer")? Mount it rw (run /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw) and copy over the kernel from a full install. Then switch back to ro with /etc/rc.conf_mount_ro and reboot. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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