I have an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard with dual P2 400MHz CPU's. I have compiled the SMP kernel and noticed that something is not right. In "top" the CPU values indicate 0% across the board, even idle! last pid: 9462; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 2+18:57:30 13:11:47 14 processes: 1 running, 13 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 5232K Active, 115M Inact, 59M Wired, 60M Buf, 315M Free Swap: 999M Total, 999M Free Also, when I run systat and go to the vmstat page I get this error: The alternate system clock has died! Reverting to ``pigs'' display. There seems to be no errors in /var/log/messages. here is my /var/run/dmesg.boot file sol# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Mon Dec 27 17:45:44 MST 2004 root@sol.integer8.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP MPTable: <OEM00000 PROD00000000> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (400.91-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> real memory = 536858624 (511 MB) avail memory = 515788800 (491 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 1 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 0 ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0 ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor. npx0: [FAST] npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 7 Entries> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe4000000-0xe7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0xb800-0xb80f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 4.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 11 at device 4.2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered piix0: <PIIX Timecounter> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0 Timecounter "PIIX" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 0 ahc0: <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xe1800000-0xe1800fff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0 ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 9.0 (no driver attached) fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xa800-0xa83f mem 0xdf800000-0xdf8fffff,0xe0000000-0xe0000fff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0 inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:90:27:8c:08:17 cpu0 on motherboard cpu1 on motherboard orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc8000-0xcd7ff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x100> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port) Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ata0-master: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> acd0: CDROM <SANYO CRD-254P/1.06> at ata0-master BIOSPIO Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1483> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1483> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1483> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da2: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a sol# What is happening? This is a test box I have here so I can do some testing as necessary. Thank you, Stephane. _________________________________________________________________ Powerful Parental Controls Let your child discover the best the Internet has to offer. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSNĀ® Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*.