Weird fan noise with usb activity

[hiren panchasara]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at bitfrost.no> wrote:
> On 07/10/13 20:46, hiren panchasara wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have this machine running current:
>>
>> Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project.
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>>          The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
>> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r252476M: Mon Jul  1 15:20:47 PDT 2013
>>      root@:/usr/obj/usr/home/hirenp/head/sys/GENERIC amd64
>> FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
>> CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU  @ 2.00GHz (1995.24-MHz K8-class CPU)
>>    Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x206d2  Family = 0x6  Model = 0x2d
>> Stepping = 2
>>
>> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>>
>> Features2=0x1fbee3ff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX>
>>    AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
>>    AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>>    TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
>> real memory  = 60129542144 (57344 MB)
>> avail memory = 55965908992 (53373 MB)
>> Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600
>> ACPI APIC Table: <INTEL  S2600CP>
>> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 24 CPUs
>> FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 6 core(s) x 2 SMT threads
>>
>> beefy% uname -a
>> FreeBSD beefy.corp.yahoo.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0
>> r252476M: Mon Jul  1 15:20:47 PDT 2013
>> root@:/usr/obj/usr/home/hirenp/head/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>> beefy%
>>
>> and everynow and then when machine is not doing anything or none is
>> touching it, the fans go mad for 5-9 seconds and make real loud noise.
>> Whenever that happens, I see following in dmesg:
>>
>> ukbd0: at uhub2, port 4, addr 3 (disconnected)
>> ums0: at uhub2, port 4, addr 3 (disconnected)
>> usbd_setup_device_desc: getting device descriptor at addr 3 failed,
>> USB_ERR_TIMEOUT
>> usbd_setup_device_desc: getting device descriptor at addr 3 failed,
>> USB_ERR_TIMEOUT
>> ugen1.3: <American Megatrends Inc.> at usbus1 (disconnected)
>> ugen1.3: <American Megatrends Inc.> at usbus1
>> ukbd0: <Keyboard Interface> on usbus1
>> kbd2 at ukbd0
>> ums0: <Mouse Interface> on usbus1
>> ums0: 3 buttons and [Z] coordinates ID=0
>>
>> beefy% sudo usbconfig
>> ugen0.1: <EHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH
>> (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
>> ugen1.1: <EHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH
>> (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
>> ugen1.2: <product 0x0024 vendor 0x8087> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST
>> spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
>> ugen0.2: <product 0x0024 vendor 0x8087> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST
>> spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
>> ugen1.4: <HP Basic USB Keyboard CHICONY> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST
>> spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON (100mA)
>> ugen1.3: <Virtual Keyboard and Mouse American Megatrends Inc.> at
>> usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (0mA)
>> beefy%
>>
>> I am not sure at all how to make sense of these things. Please let me
>> what more information I can provide.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hiren
>>
>> (I am not on this list so keep please me in the loop)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you check the output from:
>
> vmstat -i
beefy% vmstat -i | less
interrupt                          total       rate
irq20: ehci1                         664          5
irq22: ehci0                         381          2
cpu0:timer                          5836         44
irq264: isci0                        621          4
irq275: igb1:que 0                   945          7
irq276: igb1:que 1                   158          1
irq277: igb1:que 2                   137          1
irq278: igb1:que 3                   119          0
irq279: igb1:que 4                   123          0
irq280: igb1:que 5                   127          0
irq281: igb1:que 6                   147          1
irq282: igb1:que 7                   150          1
irq283: igb1:link                      2          0
irq302: ahci0                      14452        111
cpu12:timer                         2317         17
cpu2:timer                          5552         42
cpu23:timer                         2466         18
cpu8:timer                          2745         21
cpu14:timer                         3720         28
cpu3:timer                          2311         17
cpu19:timer                         1819         13
cpu5:timer                          4034         31
cpu11:timer                         3056         23
cpu15:timer                         3916         30
cpu6:timer                          4795         36
cpu16:timer                         2917         22
cpu9:timer                          3632         27
cpu21:timer                         3784         29
cpu7:timer                          3049         23
cpu20:timer                         3052         23
cpu1:timer                          2836         21
cpu4:timer                          1882         14
cpu18:timer                         2310         17
cpu10:timer                         3932         30
cpu17:timer                         3157         24
cpu13:timer                         3620         27
cpu22:timer                         2310         17
Total                              97074        746

Thanks,
Hiren
>
> --HPS
>