Subject: Re: SMP "hiccups", anyone ?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Martin S. Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/02/2004 15:14:08
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:59:22PM +0200, Love wrote:
> 
> "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > Has anyone else seen this ? Know what it is ? How to stop it ? How to
> > watch it to gain information helpful to debugging it ? Any hints anyone ?
> 
> Yes, I've seen this when playing movies with mplayer on my
> 
> $ dmesg | grep 'cpu[0-3]:.*Intel Xeon'
> cpu0: Intel Xeon (686-class), 2392.40 MHz, id 0xf29
> cpu1: Intel Xeon (686-class), 2392.30 MHz, id 0xf29
> cpu2: Intel Xeon (686-class), 2392.29 MHz, id 0xf29
> cpu3: Intel Xeon (686-class), 2392.29 MHz, id 0xf29
> 
> machine, booting a up kernel makes the problem go away.

up = Uni Processor I assume ? Hmm, kind of a suboptimal solution :)

If I can be of any help in debugging this problem / testing patches
or whatever with a mp kernel, let me know. I'll keep on listening
to audio cds (which works fine without hiccups) for now, and take
the other hiccups.

Regards,

-Martin