5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

Christian Brueffer wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:16:48PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
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>>Since I upgraded from 5.3-stable to 5.4-prerelease, I've noticed that my 
>>computer is hanging badly under load. I've a P4 2.53 GHz without 
>>hyperthreading (no SMP). I use the same kernel configurations than 
>>before. Now when I compile a port for example, the mouse pointer hangs 
>>in Fluxbox and Mozilla takes forever (meaning ~5 sec) to refresh the 
>>screen. Even vi hangs. I do not see any warning/error message. Is it a 
>>known problem with 5.4?
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>I have experienced something similar, putting the following into rc.conf
>worked for me:
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>performance_cpu_freq="HIGH"
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>- Christian
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Yes, this seams to fix it. I didn't know that I had a laptop? :)