Re: kern/40945: system process locked at 100% CPU

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40945; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/40945: system process locked at 100% CPU
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:39:14 +0000

 On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:30:05PM +0000, okay_awright wrote:
  >  The bug is still present in the final 5.0 release.
  >  The only workaround I was able to find (I'm no kernel hacker or ACPI
  >  expert) is to disable every Intel sensor device within the kernel, then
  >  the problem disappears and the system process remains idle. Something
  >  may be broken or incomplete within the new envsys 2, for information the
  >  problem did not appear in the previous (4.0) distribution.
 
 Which drivers specifically do you need to disable? (And do you need to
 disable all of them or is there just one that's really causing the
 problem? I'd expect the latter.)
 
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 David A. Holland
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