Re: [bugs] SMP, KDE3 and OpenOffice
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:35:50AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > I believe that most of the OOo file import functionality is > provided by Java modules, and it will successfully build without You are wrong. OOo can work and import/export most documents without Java. Java is needed for Palm file formats and IIRC for PowerPoint. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: [bugs] SMP, KDE3 and OpenOffice
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your reply: > Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:35:50 +1000 > From: Andrew Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >... > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:12:49PM +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: > > I'm trying to set up FreeBSD on my box, which has an Intel > > D945GNT motherboard, two 3.2GHz processors, 1GB memory. The system > > installs OK and I've been able to use cvsup to upgrade everything, > > remake the kernel (for SMP), build OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 KDE 3.5. > > Just to clarify, are those processors amd64/em64, or ia32? Are > you running a 32-bit or 64-bit system on them? Aah. I see from > your uname, below, that you're running i386 code. That should > remove a few potential pitfalls. They are supposed to be ia32, but here is part of the dmesg output (I don't quite understand all of this): ... AMD Features=0x2010 Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 1072087040 (1022 MB) avail memory = 1039990784 (991 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) ... > > 1. Only one processor seems to be used. The output from top -S is: > > > > PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > >11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.02% idle: > > cpu1 > >12 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN0 139:40 98.34% idle: > > cpu0 > > It seems to me that the FreeBSD scheduler is pretty keen on > processor affinity, which is a good thing. My AMD-X2 dual core > system has been up a good deal longer than yours, but the idle > times are still fairly different: > > root 12 99.0 0.0 016 ?? RL8Jul06 9797:24.05 [idle: cpu0] > root 11 98.5 0.0 016 ?? RL8Jul06 11206:02.27 [idle: cpu1] Hmm, yes. Maybe I don't have a problem. I haven't yet stretched it, although I noticed while building a new kernel - which I did the old way, before reading UPDATING :-( - that there was no activity on the other CPU. > > 3. OpenOffice.org does not like any of the files produced from > > anywhere else. I have stuff written in StarOffice 5.2 and in MS Word, > > but none of these will open. Even stuff written using OpenOffice.org > > 2 on a MS system is not acceptable. The error is always "General I/O > > Error". OpenOffice will read files that it has written quite OK and > > permissions, ownership, etc all seem to be OK. > > I believe that most of the OOo file import functionality is > provided by Java modules, and it will successfully build without > this functionality if you don't have or don't want to run Java. > Do you have a working native Java implementation? You might > need to get Java going before building (or re-building) OOo. Yes, I was aware of this, and installed jdk1.4.2 and jdk1.5.0 before building OOo. I built 1.4.2 first, but I think jdk 1.5.0 is the native FreeBSD one? However, I noticed today that there is a "src.zip" file in the jdk1.5.0 directory. I unzipped this, and maybe I now need to rebuild OOo. I'll try this when I get some time. Thanks again for your help. Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 AinslieCell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: [bugs] SMP, KDE3 and OpenOffice
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:12:49PM +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: > I'm trying to set up FreeBSD on my box, which has an Intel > D945GNT motherboard, two 3.2GHz processors, 1GB memory. The system > installs OK and I've been able to use cvsup to upgrade everything, > remake the kernel (for SMP), build OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 KDE 3.5. Just to clarify, are those processors amd64/em64, or ia32? Are you running a 32-bit or 64-bit system on them? Aah. I see from your uname, below, that you're running i386 code. That should remove a few potential pitfalls. > However, three problems remain unsolved in spite of all of these > things: > > 1. Only one processor seems to be used. The output from top -S is: > > PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND >11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.02% idle: cpu1 >12 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN0 139:40 98.34% idle: cpu0 It seems to me that the FreeBSD scheduler is pretty keen on processor affinity, which is a good thing. My AMD-X2 dual core system has been up a good deal longer than yours, but the idle times are still fairly different: root 12 99.0 0.0 016 ?? RL8Jul06 9797:24.05 [idle: cpu0] root 11 98.5 0.0 016 ?? RL8Jul06 11206:02.27 [idle: cpu1] Do you get any activity on the other CPU if you do a buildworld with make -j4 or so? > 2. KDE 3.5 does not like to run any screensaver. They all run OK on > test, and if I run the actual programs themselves, there is no > problem. However, KDE will not start them up automatically. I'm afraid I run a GNOME system, so I can't help with that problem. The screen saver doesn't seem to have any trouble starting under GNOME, but I haven't been able to get it to do the DPMS monitor power-down yet. Still investigating that. > 3. OpenOffice.org does not like any of the files produced from > anywhere else. I have stuff written in StarOffice 5.2 and in MS Word, > but none of these will open. Even stuff written using OpenOffice.org > 2 on a MS system is not acceptable. The error is always "General I/O > Error". OpenOffice will read files that it has written quite OK and > permissions, ownership, etc all seem to be OK. I believe that most of the OOo file import functionality is provided by Java modules, and it will successfully build without this functionality if you don't have or don't want to run Java. Do you have a working native Java implementation? You might need to get Java going before building (or re-building) OOo. > Neither the KDE nor the OpenOffice problem has altered by > upgrading these two systems and the SMP problem is also the same as > with the GENERIC kernel. uname -a gives: > > FreeBSD grandpa.connect-a.com.au 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: > Sat Jul 15 16:46:44 EST 2006 [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP i386 -- Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
