On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:03:08 -0400, "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k_at_gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 21:20 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> After booting with the APIC enabled, I found out that: >> >> * In single user mode, after `boot -sv', I can keep working without >> any major slow down. >> >> * When I exit single user mode, and a few of the rc.d startup scripts >> run, the laptop becomes progressively slower, and eventually crawls >> to an unusable state. I can almost complete logging in as `root' in >> ttyv0 but only if I keep furiously moving the mouse around. If I >> don't move the mouse at all, the typed characters may never actually >> appear on ttyv0. > > Are you by any chance using cx_lowest="C3" (or "LOW") in your rc.conf? I > have seen these symptoms (including mouse inducement of the typed > characters) when cpu0 on my laptop went to C3. Nowadays I have C3 on > cpu1 and C2 on cpu0 and life is good. Then again, I am running RELENG_7 > (which AFAICR was 7-CURRENT at the time), so YMMV. Ah, good point. I have indeed performance_cx_lowest="LOW" in rc.conf. I'll remove that and try again with the APIC enabled...Received on Sat Jul 19 2008 - 20:34:07 UTC
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