i386/139115: low cpu frequency reported
Arkadiy Kulev
eth at ethaniel.com
Thu Sep 24 14:30:01 UTC 2009
>Number: 139115
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: low cpu frequency reported
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 24 14:30:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Arkadiy Kulev
>Release: 7.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD w11 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 root at walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
I have installed Freebsd 7.2 "out of the box" and noticed, that some of the processes are taking much more time to complete than usual.
After investigating the problem, I noticed, that sysctl reports abnormally low cpu frequency:
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 15/89000
dev.est.0.freq_settings: 15/89000
dev.est.1.freq_settings: 15/89000
dev.est.2.freq_settings: 15/89000
dev.est.3.freq_settings: 15/89000
dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.freq: 15
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 15/89000
dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00%
dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU1
dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00%
dev.cpu.2.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.2.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.2.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU2
dev.cpu.2.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.2.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.2.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.2.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.2.cx_usage: 100.00%
dev.cpu.3.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.3.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.3.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU3
dev.cpu.3.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.3.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.3.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.3.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.3.cx_usage: 100.00%
The funny thing is, that I have another machine with the same architecture, still running freebsd 7.0 and it works fine:
dev.cpu.0.freq: 2394
dev.est.0.freq_settings: 2394/89000 1596/56960
dev.est.1.freq_settings: 2394/89000 1596/56960
dev.est.2.freq_settings: 2394/89000 1596/56960
dev.est.3.freq_settings: 2394/89000 1596/56960
dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.freq: 2394
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2394/89000 2094/77875 1795/66750 1596/56960 1396/49840 1197/42720 997/35600 798/28480 598/21360
dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00%
dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU1
dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00%
dev.cpu.2.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.2.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.2.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU2
dev.cpu.2.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.2.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.2.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.2.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.2.cx_usage: 100.00%
dev.cpu.3.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.3.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.3.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU3
dev.cpu.3.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.3.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.3.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.3.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.3.cx_usage: 100.00%
I assume, that there is some bug somewhere in freebsd versions >7.0.
>How-To-Repeat:
Have no idea, the problem appeared right after the upgrade from 7.0 to 7.2 (fresh install).
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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