1 message in org.freebsd.freebsd-smpFreeBSD 5.3-SMP/IRQ problems (again)| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Jason W. Barnes | Jan 3, 2006 1:42 pm |
| Subject: | FreeBSD 5.3-SMP/IRQ problems (again) | |
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| From: | Jason W. Barnes (jbar...@barnesos.net) | |
| Date: | Jan 3, 2006 1:42:52 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-smp | |
SMP is impossible, w/ or w/o ACPI. FreeBSD 5.3 dies after a while of doing graphical output with the X11 GUI. I stressed the machine today with buildworld and build kernel and building openoffice 1.1.4 with console output and for 15 hours the box was stable as a rock. But switching to the X11 GUI doing some FireFox jobs (simply surfing the www) let the system die within minutes. Sometimes I can 'feel' when a crash is arising, the box is a kind of 'calm' and I can switch to the console sometimes catching the error message from the debugger, but sometimes not.
I was having a similar problem with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE whereby the system was totally stable without SMP, and totally stable with SMP while X wasn't running, but where the system would hang after between zero and 5 minutes of running X. Sometimes it would lock up even before X got started. I'm running a dual Athlon system on an Asus A7M266-D. I fixed the problem by removing modules in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and found that removing:
Load "dri"
from the "Module" section stopped the freezes, and returned my system to full stability. I don't know what the dri module does, so I don't know what I'm missing, but everything seems to run okay now. Just in case someone else encounters the parent post with the same problem,
- Jason Barnes