5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

[Christian Brueffer]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:07:14PM -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> Christian Brueffer wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:16:48PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>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?
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I have experienced something similar, putting the following into rc.conf
> >worked for me:
> >
> >performance_cpu_freq="HIGH"
> >
> >- Christian
> >
> > 
> >
> Yes, this seams to fix it. I didn't know that I had a laptop? :)
> 

Good to hear.

Nate, this regression was introduced during the cpufreq and friends MFC.
Is switching the performance_cpu_freq default to HIGH the way to go for
5.4-RELEASE?

- Christian

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