6.1-PRERELEASE: freezing

[Boris Samorodov]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:27:50 +0400 Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:03:30 -0800 Sam Leffler wrote:
> > László Károly wrote:
> > > Boris Samorodov wrote:

> > >> I've had 6.0-STABLE as of jan-2006. Yesterday it was upgraded to
> > >> current 6.1-PRERELEASE (tag=RELENG_6). The hardware is HP/Compaq
> > >> nx6110 notebook.
> > >>
> > >> After upgrading mashine is freezing under load. After booting the
> > >> OS without any actions it's OK for two hours. But after starting of
> > >> make buildkernel the mashine freezes.

> It's freezing (actually it's an IRQ storm) when the cooler temperature
> is increased and the speed of the fan should be increased.

> > > I have the same box and I too made an upgrade yesterday (from a
> > > two-week-old 6.1-PRERELEASE). The same experience: the system became
> > > unusably slow, no problem without ACPI.
> > >> What type of debugging should I do to find up what's up?
> > > Good question ;-): how to debug a system which practically does not
> > > react but "runs"?

> > Are you running powerd?  I've got an nx6125 (amd cpu) that has
> > numerous acpi issues and also would lockup when idle.  I found turning
> > off powerd stopped the latter.  Unfortunately there are still many
> > other unresolved issues (and no time to pursue them).

> I found when things went broken. It is the patch(es) as of
> 2006-01-13. The patch is at attachment. After applying (reversed)

Sorry, the date should be 2006-03-14.

> patch acpi is working as well as management of the cooler speed.

> Sam, should I do some other testing?

> László, can you apply the patch (cd /usr/src; patch -R -p0
> _the_patch_), make kernel and tell us if the problem go out?
> As for me the reversed patch worked for current 6.1-PRERELEASE
> (cvsupped some hours ago).


> WBR
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> Boris B. Samorodov, Research Engineer
> InPharmTech Co,     http://www.ipt.ru
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