The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched. This fact -- unknown to me before last night -- was the source of a great deal of lost time!
My 6.4 SMP kernel (now customized) runs just fine, with both cpus active, *except* for this message streaming constantly up the boot console. (from /var/log/messages:) May 4 20:20:33 poobah kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq15:"; throttling interrupt source May 4 20:21:02 poobah last message repeated 42 times May 4 20:21:03 poobah login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1 May 4 20:21:03 poobah kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq15:"; throttling interrupt source May 4 20:21:33 poobah last message repeated 30 times May 4 20:23:33 poobah last message repeated 120 times May 4 20:33:33 poobah last message repeated 599 times May 4 20:40:01 poobah last message repeated 387 times etc etc ad repetitum infinitum Question1: Is this something I should go to some lengths to eliminate? Question2: What the heck is it? Best regards, -- Duane _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
