Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-30 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:08:58 +1100 (EST)
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:

 On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
   
   I don't know.  Since last time, I've upgraded the bios to the
   latest (A03) and reset bios to default values - but the problem is
   still there. According to the specs, a SX260 supports all Pentium
   4 cpus with 400 MHz and 533 MHz FSB (front side bus).
 
 Yes, this is your problem, regarding speed anyway.  I only picked up
 on this because this year we bought 2 used intel mobos on eBay; a
 D845GBV with a 2GHz P4 (also 400/533 MHz FSB with similar 845 chips
 to yours) and the other a D865GLC with a 2.6GHz HTT P4 (400/533/800
 MHz FSB).

You're right, of course. :-)
I found a Pentium 4 with 400 Mhz FSB, it looks much better now:
FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #6: Sun Oct 11 11:14:33 CEST 2009
r...@kg-work2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SX270
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (1992.63-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf27  Stepping = 7
  
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,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=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR
real memory  = 2145849344 (2046 MB)

and  FreeBSD 8.0 doesn't say anything about non-unform cpu anymore.  ;^)
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Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
  On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:08:58 +1100 (EST)
  Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
   On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
 
 I don't know.  Since last time, I've upgraded the bios to the
 latest (A03) and reset bios to default values - but the problem is
 still there. According to the specs, a SX260 supports all Pentium
 4 cpus with 400 MHz and 533 MHz FSB (front side bus).
   
   Yes, this is your problem, regarding speed anyway.  I only picked up
   on this because this year we bought 2 used intel mobos on eBay; a
   D845GBV with a 2GHz P4 (also 400/533 MHz FSB with similar 845 chips
   to yours) and the other a D865GLC with a 2.6GHz HTT P4 (400/533/800
   MHz FSB).
  
  You're right, of course. :-)

Well, 'for once' :)

  I found a Pentium 4 with 400 Mhz FSB, it looks much better now:
  FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #6: Sun Oct 11 11:14:33 CEST 2009
  r...@kg-work2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SX270
  Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
  CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (1992.63-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf27  Stepping = 7

  Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,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=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR
  real memory  = 2145849344 (2046 MB)
  
  and  FreeBSD 8.0 doesn't say anything about non-unform cpu anymore.  ;^)

Great.  Your 2GHz P4 is a later stepping which has HTT also, ours is:
  CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 04
  Total of 1 processors activated (4003.47 BogoMIPS).
as Debian dmesg tells it.

But I still don't know whether it's nowadays safe and/or advantageous 
running hyperthreading on these CPUs in FreeBSD?  Anyone?

cheers, Ian
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Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-22 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:29:54 +1100 (EST)
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:

 Why is it booting up at half speed?  Same in your 7.2-STABLE dmesg.

I don't know.  Since last time, I've upgraded the bios to the latest
(A03) and reset bios to default values - but the problem is still there.
According to the specs, a SX260 supports all Pentium 4 cpus with 400
MHz and 533 MHz FSB (front side bus).

 Something set that way in BIOS?  What does 'sysctl dev.cpu' say?

The only setting in bios related to cpu speed are
normal and comaptible. I've tried both - doesn't make a difference.

Now sysctl.dev.cpu says:
r...@kg-work2# sysctl dev.cpu
dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.freq: 1295
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1295/-1 1133/-1 971/-1 809/-1 647/-1 485/-1 323/-1
dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us
dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU1
dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/0
dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us

 
 Only spotted a verbose dmesg for 7.2-STABLE there, not for 8.0?

Not, I didn't make one that evening. There is one over ther now. :-)

 I suppose you have HTT disabled in BIOS?

Yes, I had, it is enabled now.
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Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-22 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:21:45 + (GMT)
Gavin Atkinson ga...@freebsd.org wrote:

 Can you please reboot and show a verbose dmesg from this system?

Yes, it is there[1] now. :-)

 Also, how many CPUs does this system actually have?  It appears that
 in the 7.2 dmesg at 2) above, two are detected but only one is ever
 used - are you explicitly disabling hyperthreading somehow?

It has one Pentium 4 cpu.
Hyperthreading was disabled in bios, it is enabled now:
Copyright (c) 1992-2009 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 7.2-STABLE #6: Sun Oct 11 11:14:33 CEST 2009
r...@kg-work2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SX270
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (1295.21-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FX
SR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
  Features2=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR
  Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory  = 2145849344 (2046 MB)
avail memory = 2090192896 (1993 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: DELL   SX260  
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2
ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: DELL SX260   on motherboard


References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/sx260_freebsd

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Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-22 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 06:41:30 pm Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
 On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:21:45 + (GMT)
 

 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #6: Sun Oct 11 11:14:33 CEST 2009

 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (1295.21-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  
  Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,M
 CA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FX SR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
   Features2=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR
   Logical CPUs per core: 2

 ACPI APIC Table: DELL   SX260  
 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
  cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1
 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2

My first thought was that perhaps you were running a uniprocessor kernel, but 
I checked GENERIC and SMP option is there.  My dmesg is a little different:
FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #16: Sat Dec 19 22:56:44 EST 2009

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
  
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,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=0x641dSSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR
  AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM
  TSC: P-state invariant

FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT threads
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1

I think the clue to run down is why does FreeBSD think your sx260 is running 
at 1295.21-MHz.

I think I would try updating your usb stick's kernel with 8-stable and rebuild 
it. I'm wondering if someone who made the stick image turned off SMP to make i 
fit on small sticks (above is 7.2-stable, not the 8 on a stick).

I see HTT in your CPUs features, but I wonder what that's based on. What if 
the BIOS supports hyperthreading but the cpu doesn't? (there were p4 
processors sold before hyperthreading came out, I know, I bought one. 8o)

You might try finding a cpu diagnostic tool that describes the cpu in great 
detail, like from download.com, etc.

You might also go to Intel's site and lookup the id 0xf29 and see if Intel 
says it actually supports hyperthreading.
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RE: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-22 Thread Sean Hulbert
Hello have you looked to your /etc/rc.conf

set to the following by adding:

powerd_enable=YES

power_flag'-i 85 -r 60 -p 100

or

Now you can also modify this file: /etc/sysctl.conf or /boot/loader.conf
(CPU Frequency)

debug.cpufreq.lowest=600

To test live in your terminal you can set it with this command:

sysctl debug.cpufreq.lowest=600

Now you can set it to 1200 but I would recommend 100 at a time for testing.






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From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org 
[mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Torfinn Ingolfsen
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 3:42 PM
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Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform 
processors?

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:21:45 + (GMT)
Gavin Atkinson ga...@freebsd.org wrote:

 Can you please reboot and show a verbose dmesg from this system?

Yes, it is there[1] now. :-)

 Also, how many CPUs does this system actually have?  It appears that
 in the 7.2 dmesg at 2) above, two are detected but only one is ever
 used - are you explicitly disabling hyperthreading somehow?

It has one Pentium 4 cpu.
Hyperthreading was disabled in bios, it is enabled now:
Copyright (c) 1992-2009 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 7.2-STABLE #6: Sun Oct 11 11:14:33 CEST 2009
r...@kg-work2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SX270
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (1295.21-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FX
SR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
  Features2=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR
  Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory  = 2145849344 (2046 MB)
avail memory = 2090192896 (1993 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: DELL   SX260  
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2
ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: DELL SX260   on motherboard


References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/sx260_freebsd

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Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
  On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:29:54 +1100 (EST)
  Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
  
   Why is it booting up at half speed?  Same in your 7.2-STABLE dmesg.
  
  I don't know.  Since last time, I've upgraded the bios to the latest
  (A03) and reset bios to default values - but the problem is still there.
  According to the specs, a SX260 supports all Pentium 4 cpus with 400
  MHz and 533 MHz FSB (front side bus).

Yes, this is your problem, regarding speed anyway.  I only picked up on 
this because this year we bought 2 used intel mobos on eBay; a D845GBV 
with a 2GHz P4 (also 400/533 MHz FSB with similar 845 chips to yours) 
and the other a D865GLC with a 2.6GHz HTT P4 (400/533/800 MHz FSB).

Only the D865GLC 800MHz FSB board takes the 2.6GHz HTT P4, shown as 
'2.60C GHz' in the board manual and also on this page:
 http://www.intel.com/support/processors/pentium4/sb/CS-011987.htm

Our older 400/533 FSB board only takes a non-HTT P4 using 400MHZ FSB, 
('2.60 GHz' without the 'C'), though it only has a 2GHz non-HTT CPU.

After a looong time hunting through fluff and bumph from various angles 
and searches on the intel site (argh!), I finally found:

 http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ProcFam=483

Where there are several 478-pin 2.60GHz P4s with 512MB L2 cache, eg:

 http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL6WS  (800MHz FSB)
 http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL6QR  (400MHz FSB)

but all of the HTT 2.6GHz ones require 800MHz FSB, so I guess this is 
why its set to run at half speed by your board?  Perhaps the SX270 you 
mentioned having taken this CPU out of, supported up to 800MHz FSB?

   Something set that way in BIOS?  What does 'sysctl dev.cpu' say?
  
  The only setting in bios related to cpu speed are
  normal and comaptible. I've tried both - doesn't make a difference.
  
  Now sysctl.dev.cpu says:
  r...@kg-work2# sysctl dev.cpu
  dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
  dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
  dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
  dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
  dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
  dev.cpu.0.freq: 1295
  dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1295/-1 1133/-1 971/-1 809/-1 647/-1 485/-1 323/-1

Yeah, just p4tcc thermal throttling, no EST speedstep control on these; 
powerd could save you some heat but not much less power use, I gather.

  dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0
  dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1
  dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us
  dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU
  dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu
  dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU1
  dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
  dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0
  dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/0
  dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1
  dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us
  
   
   Only spotted a verbose dmesg for 7.2-STABLE there, not for 8.0?
  
  Not, I didn't make one that evening. There is one over ther now. :-)
  
   I suppose you have HTT disabled in BIOS?
  
  Yes, I had, it is enabled now.

Well I don't imagine running at half speed with HTT is going to be as 
quick as full speed without .. and I'll guess further that this is what 
the 'non-uniform processors' message is likely about.  You may find that 
putting a faster non-HTT P4 in it, maybe up to 2.8GHz would go better, 
or that search tool shows some 3.06GHz and a 2.40A GHz HTT @533MHz FSB.

HTH, Ian
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Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-21 Thread Gavin Atkinson


On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

Hi,
I just booted my Dell OptiPlex SX260[1] from a usb memory stick with
FreeBSD 8.0-release on it. Part of the dmesg output is:
Copyright (c) 1992-2009 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 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009
   r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (1295.21-MHz 686-class CPU)
 Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
 
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,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=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR
real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
avail memory = 2085347328 (1988 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: DELL   SX260  
WARNING: Non-uniform processors.
WARNING: Using suboptimal topology.
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1
ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0

Full demsg output on the FreeBSD page[2] for this machine.
Why does FreeBSD think that this machine has non-unform processors?
Ok, the Pentium 4 in it can proably do hyperthreading, but that isn't
much to talk about.
What excatly is non-unform here?

References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/sx260
2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/sx260_freebsd


Can you please reboot and show a verbose dmesg from this system?  Also, 
how many CPUs does this system actually have?  It appears that in the 7.2 
dmesg at 2) above, two are detected but only one is ever used - are you 
explicitly disabling hyperthreading somehow?


Gavin
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Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-20 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi,
I just booted my Dell OptiPlex SX260[1] from a usb memory stick with
FreeBSD 8.0-release on it. Part of the dmesg output is:
Copyright (c) 1992-2009 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 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009
r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (1295.21-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,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=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR
real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
avail memory = 2085347328 (1988 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: DELL   SX260  
WARNING: Non-uniform processors.
WARNING: Using suboptimal topology.
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1
ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0

Full demsg output on the FreeBSD page[2] for this machine.
Why does FreeBSD think that this machine has non-unform processors?
Ok, the Pentium 4 in it can proably do hyperthreading, but that isn't
much to talk about.
What excatly is non-unform here?

References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/sx260
2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/sx260_freebsd
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Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have non-unform processors?

2009-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
  Hi,
  I just booted my Dell OptiPlex SX260[1] from a usb memory stick with
  FreeBSD 8.0-release on it. Part of the dmesg output is:
  Copyright (c) 1992-2009 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 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009
  r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
  Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
  CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (1295.21-MHz 686-class CPU)

Why is it booting up at half speed?  Same in your 7.2-STABLE dmesg.
Something set that way in BIOS?  What does 'sysctl dev.cpu' say?

Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9

  Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,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=0x4400CNXT-ID,xTPR
  real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
  avail memory = 2085347328 (1988 MB)
  ACPI APIC Table: DELL   SX260  
  WARNING: Non-uniform processors.
  WARNING: Using suboptimal topology.
  ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1
  ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
  kbd1 at kbdmux0
  
  Full demsg output on the FreeBSD page[2] for this machine.

Only spotted a verbose dmesg for 7.2-STABLE there, not for 8.0?

  Why does FreeBSD think that this machine has non-unform processors?
  Ok, the Pentium 4 in it can proably do hyperthreading, but that isn't
  much to talk about.

I suppose you have HTT disabled in BIOS?

  What excatly is non-unform here?

I don't know, but suspect the detected half CPU speed may be a clue?

  References:
  1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/sx260
  2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/sx260_freebsd
  -- 
  Regards,
  Torfinn Ingolfsen

cheers, Ian
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