Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

Jeremy Chadwick
2008-10-08T18:37:01Z

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:19:47AM -0700, bf wrote:
> After updating to RELENG_7 i386 of this weekend, I have been having
problems
> with my machine.  When booting normally, the system slows or hangs at the
> login prompt.  If I am able to continue past the prompt, I sometimes
experience
> erratic mouse behavior, and a subsequent hang, after varying lengths of
time,
> even under light workloads.  The same problem does not seem to occur in
> single-user mode, and did not occur with the RELENG_7 i386 of just over a
> week ago.  I have been unable to obtain crashdumps so far, and the only
> log messages I can find that weren't present before are notices like
those
> recorded below:
>
> Oct  8 11:00:40 myhost kernel: t_delta 15.fd80bdcb75b60200 too short

This comes from src/sys/kern/kern_tc.c, around line 908.  I'm not
familiar with the kernel, but two ideas come to mind:

1) If you have Intel SpeedStep (EIST) or AMD Cool'n'Quiet enabled in
your BIOS, try disabling it,

2) If you're using powerd, disable it (I don't see it enabled),

3) Try keeping HZ at 1000 (the default).

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