Fresh current (r269328) amd64: high load average while idle, slow keyboard reaction

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi!


On 1 August 2014 11:18, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
>> Jan,
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:56:23PM +0200, Jan Kokemüller wrote:
>> > On 31.07.2014 16:21, Anton Berezin wrote:
>> > >At the console, depressing and holding a key does not lead to auto-repeat.
>> > >
>> > >At the console, sometimes a key only appears on the terminal after another
>> > >key is pressed.
>> >
>> > Maybe this is a problem caused by a misdetected clock source? I've had this
>> > problem as well.
>> >
>> > Try to set kern.timecounter.hardware and/or kern.eventtimer.timer to other
>> > settings that are listed in kern.timecounter.choice and
>> > kern.eventtimer.choice, such as HPET which works great for me.
>>
>> Setting both to HPET certainly helped the LA.  I cannot check the keyboard
>> input until tomorrow, but chances are that it is indeed the fix.
>
> Just wanted to throw in another datapoint, I had this issue too and setting
> kern.eventtimer.timer=HPET alone solved it for me.

Please throw this into a bug report ticket and poke mav@ about it.



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