Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/19/2010 10:43, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/19/2010 08:24, Andriy Gapon wrote: I am sorry, but I don't see anything dramatically wrong here. So "swi4: clock" uses 5.76% of WCPU, is that such a big deal to be called "runaway intr"? That's the sympt

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-19 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/19/2010 08:24, Andriy Gapon wrote: I am sorry, but I don't see anything dramatically wrong here. So "swi4: clock" uses 5.76% of WCPU, is that such a big deal to be called "runaway intr"? That's the symptom. Have you ever posted a vmstat -i for w

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/08/2010 20:30 Doug Barton said the following: > On 08/19/2010 08:24, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> I am sorry, but I don't see anything dramatically wrong here. So >> "swi4: clock" uses 5.76% of WCPU, is that such a big deal to be >> called "runaway intr"? > > That's the symptom. OK, I see. Perha

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/19/2010 08:24, Andriy Gapon wrote: I am sorry, but I don't see anything dramatically wrong here. So "swi4: clock" uses 5.76% of WCPU, is that such a big deal to be called "runaway intr"? That's the symptom. A lot of CPU time is idle and a lot is used by userland processes (e.g. Xorg). C

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 12/08/2010 23:57 Doug Barton said the following: > My "runaway intr" problem with flash has been continuing all along, but > since no one has been interested in helping with it I haven't reported > it for a while. However, today, for the first time, it happened when I > had not run flash at all

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-17 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote: - Have you tried running a uniprocessor kernel? Ok I tried this, and got the same result early into the 3rd video. After I ran the dtrace intr got up to a truly impressive 27% cpu before I shut it down. last pid: 4423; load averages: 2.07, 1.32,

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 16 August 2010 13:09, Doug Barton wrote: >> Can you remember the revision number of the last >> version of -CURRENT that didn't have these problems? > > It was at least a year ago, so no; I can't remember specifically. Have you tried running software build(s) from ~ 1.5 years ago to see wheth

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-15 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Aug-14 20:30:44 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: It DOESN'T happen with loads that produce a lot more heat than my typical desktop workloads (like say, make -j2 buildworld). Whilst I also doubt it's hardware, it's worth noting that flash (or other mu

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-15 Thread Doug Barton
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, b. f. wrote: What were you doing when you triggered the interrupt problem without running X? I'm afraid to say, lest I am once again labeled a bad programmer. :) Was there a lot of network, audio device, or disk activity at the time? Disk, lots and lots of disk. No net

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Aug-14 20:30:44 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >It DOESN'T happen with loads that produce a lot more heat than my >typical desktop workloads (like say, make -j2 buildworld). Whilst I also doubt it's hardware, it's worth noting that flash (or other multimedia workload) is likely to stress diffe

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-14 Thread b. f.
On 8/15/10, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/14/2010 09:54, b. f. wrote: >>> My "runaway intr" problem with flash has been continuing all >>> along, but since no one has been interested in helping with it I >>> haven't reported it for a while. However, today, for the first >>> time, it happened when I h

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/14/2010 20:30, Doug Barton wrote: I'm still using powerd, and it seems to be working as expected. Sorry, I should have added here that I've also tried running WITHOUT powerd, and the runaway intr problem still happens. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet prese

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/14/2010 09:54, b. f. wrote: My "runaway intr" problem with flash has been continuing all along, but since no one has been interested in helping with it I haven't reported it for a while. However, today, for the first time, it happened when I had not run flash at all since I booted. My syst

Re: Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-14 Thread b. f.
>My "runaway intr" problem with flash has been continuing all along, but >since no one has been interested in helping with it I haven't reported >it for a while. However, today, for the first time, it happened when I >had not run flash at all since I booted. > >My system: >Dell D620, C2D, i386, SMP

Runaway intr, not flash related

2010-08-12 Thread Doug Barton
My "runaway intr" problem with flash has been continuing all along, but since no one has been interested in helping with it I haven't reported it for a while. However, today, for the first time, it happened when I had not run flash at all since I booted. My system: Dell D620, C2D, i386, SMP, r