freebsd-amd64 Digest, Vol 39, Issue 3

[Quincey Koziol]

> > From: Quincey Koziol <koziol at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> > Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:01:35 -0600 (CST)
> > 
> >     Ok, I managed to copy the source code off of the 5.2.1-RELEASE CD-ROM and
> > (after hacking the makefiles a bit) build a new world & kernel.  However, after
> > installing the new kernel (and rebooting in single user, with ACPI disabled),
> > I'm back to the same behavior as when I boot the 5.2.1 CD-ROM itself - the
> > system is _glacially_ slow, taking many, many minutes to make progress in
> > booting and making interactive use (at the console, since network connections
> > always time-out) extremely difficult.
> 
> This is not normal.  Does the i386 CD do this too?  Can you disable ACPI in the
> system ROM setup?
    Hmm, I hadn't thought about the i386 CD, I'll see about trying that.  I
can't disable ACPI in the BIOS setup, unfortunately...

> >     Is this a general symptom of amd64 machines that others have seen?  Would
> > disabling "INVARIANTS" or "WITNESS" in the GENERIC kernel build help?  Or, has
> > this been addressed in 5-CURRENT and I just need the most recent source?
> > Could anyone help me out by providing a .tgz of a recent /usr/src?
> 
> Does your GENERIC enable WITNESS? I don't think it ships that way.
    When I re-built the kernel, it had WITNESS enabled, but I've since re-built
without INVARIANT and WITNESS and that didn't help either. :-(

    Quincey