Re: time keeps on slipping... slipping...

2012-10-11 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Alexander Motin wrote this message on Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:43 +0300:
 On 08.10.2012 07:02, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
 I recently put together a new machine w/ a SuperMicro H8SCM and an
 AMD Opteron 4228 HE...  I've having an issue where the clock on the
 machine skips around...  The wierd part is that it's very sudden when
 it happens...  ntp sometimes brings it back, but it can't when the clock
 gets too far ahread (1000 seconds), ntp dies...
 
 In order to catch it happening, I ran a sleep 60 loop fetching time
 from another server that keeps time correctly via:
 while sleep 60; do echo -n h2:; nc h2 13; date; ntpdate h2.funkthat.com; 
 done
 
 here are some snippits:
 h2:Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 2012^M
 Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 PDT 2012
   7 Oct 17:12:54 ntpdate[31036]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
 h2:Sun Oct  7 17:13:48 2012^M
 Sun Oct  7 17:20:21 PDT 2012
   7 Oct 17:20:21 ntpdate[31045]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
 
 but then ntp brings it back in sync:
 h2:Sun Oct  7 17:28:49 2012^M
 Sun Oct  7 17:35:21 PDT 2012
   7 Oct 17:35:21 ntpdate[31164]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
 h2:Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 2012^M
 Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 PDT 2012
   7 Oct 17:29:49 ntpdate[31170]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
 
 It happens pretty often:
 Oct  7 00:19:13 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.347912 s
 Oct  7 00:46:37 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.673256 s
 Oct  7 01:04:24 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.346533 s
 Oct  7 15:00:59 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.681720 s
 Oct  7 16:32:11 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.671268 s
 Oct  7 17:29:29 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.671752 s
 Oct  7 18:04:37 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.346987 s
 
 but as you can see above, the time slip happens abruptly.. looks like
 a rounding error or something...
 
 I'm now reducing the sleep to 5 seconds... but as you can see the sleep
 ends a few seconds early and local time suddenly jumped forward 6
 minutes 33 seconds...
 
 $ sysctl kern.timecounter
 kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
 kern.timecounter.tick: 1
 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) ACPI-safe(850) HPET(950) i8254(0) 
 dummy(-100)
 kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC-low
 kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 11598
 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 3257069245
 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180
 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.mask: 16777215
 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.counter: 4219134510
 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.frequency: 3579545
 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.quality: 850
 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 2854866610
 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 10937740
 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 1000
 kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 1
 kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1
 $ sysctl kern.eventtimer
 kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(400) i8254(100) RTC(0)
 kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 15
 kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 12217
 kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 400
 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1
 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182
 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100
 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17
 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768
 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0
 kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
 kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC
 kern.eventtimer.activetick: 1
 kern.eventtimer.idletick: 0
 kern.eventtimer.singlemul: 2
 
 I have switched my timecounter to HPET to see if things are different...
 
 Any clues?
 
 Mentioned switching to HPET could tell a lot about the problem. 
 Switching event timer also may be interesting.

Since I switch to HPET, it hasn't happened at all in the last 3 days..

Should I try switching back to TSC and switching event timer? do you
need any other info, or want me to try anything else?

Oh, forgot to include the specific processor info in my previous
email:
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4228 HE   (2800.05-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = AuthenticAMD  Id = 0x600f12  Family = 0x15  Model = 0x1  Stepping 
= 2
  
Features=0x178bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT
  
Features2=0x1e98220bSSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX
  AMD Features=0x2e500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM
  AMD 
Features2=0x1c9bfffLAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT,LWP,FMA4,NodeId,Topology,b23,b24
  TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics

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Re: time keeps on slipping... slipping...

2012-10-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Oct-10 23:30:30 -0700, John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com wrote:
 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 2854866610
 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 10937740
 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 1000
...
Since I switch to HPET, it hasn't happened at all in the last 3 days..

That suggests that there's something peculiar about your TSC.  There
are a variety of possibilities...  Does your CPU support multiple
Cx states and are you using them (sysctl dev.cpu | grep cx_)?

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Re: time keeps on slipping... slipping...

2012-10-11 Thread Alexander Motin

On 11.10.2012 09:30, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

Alexander Motin wrote this message on Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:43 +0300:

On 08.10.2012 07:02, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

I recently put together a new machine w/ a SuperMicro H8SCM and an
AMD Opteron 4228 HE...  I've having an issue where the clock on the
machine skips around...  The wierd part is that it's very sudden when
it happens...  ntp sometimes brings it back, but it can't when the clock
gets too far ahread (1000 seconds), ntp dies...

In order to catch it happening, I ran a sleep 60 loop fetching time

from another server that keeps time correctly via:

while sleep 60; do echo -n h2:; nc h2 13; date; ntpdate h2.funkthat.com;
done

here are some snippits:
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:12:54 ntpdate[31036]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:13:48 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:20:21 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:20:21 ntpdate[31045]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

but then ntp brings it back in sync:
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:28:49 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:35:21 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:35:21 ntpdate[31164]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:29:49 ntpdate[31170]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

It happens pretty often:
Oct  7 00:19:13 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.347912 s
Oct  7 00:46:37 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.673256 s
Oct  7 01:04:24 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.346533 s
Oct  7 15:00:59 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.681720 s
Oct  7 16:32:11 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.671268 s
Oct  7 17:29:29 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.671752 s
Oct  7 18:04:37 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.346987 s

but as you can see above, the time slip happens abruptly.. looks like
a rounding error or something...

I'm now reducing the sleep to 5 seconds... but as you can see the sleep
ends a few seconds early and local time suddenly jumped forward 6
minutes 33 seconds...

$ sysctl kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) ACPI-safe(850) HPET(950) i8254(0)
dummy(-100)
kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC-low
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 11598
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 3257069245
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.counter: 4219134510
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.quality: 850
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 2854866610
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 10937740
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 1000
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 1
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1
$ sysctl kern.eventtimer
kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(400) i8254(100) RTC(0)
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 15
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 12217
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 400
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0
kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC
kern.eventtimer.activetick: 1
kern.eventtimer.idletick: 0
kern.eventtimer.singlemul: 2

I have switched my timecounter to HPET to see if things are different...

Any clues?


Mentioned switching to HPET could tell a lot about the problem.
Switching event timer also may be interesting.


Since I switch to HPET, it hasn't happened at all in the last 3 days..


That is probably tells about some problems with TSC timecounter. What is 
strange to me is time jump size of 5 minutes. TSC timecounter should 
overflow each few seconds, so single jump should be just that big.



Should I try switching back to TSC and switching event timer? do you
need any other info, or want me to try anything else?


You may try to do it to be sure eventtimers are not related to the case.


Oh, forgot to include the specific processor info in my previous
email:
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4228 HE   (2800.05-MHz K8-class CPU)
   Origin = AuthenticAMD  Id = 0x600f12  Family = 0x15  Model = 0x1  Stepping 
= 2
   
Features=0x178bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT
   
Features2=0x1e98220bSSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX
   AMD Features=0x2e500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM
   AMD 
Features2=0x1c9bfffLAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT,LWP,FMA4,NodeId,Topology,b23,b24
   TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics


Unfortunately, I don't know AMD processors specifics. May be jkim@ or 
avg@ 

Re: time keeps on slipping... slipping...

2012-10-10 Thread Alexander Motin

On 08.10.2012 07:02, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

I recently put together a new machine w/ a SuperMicro H8SCM and an
AMD Opteron 4228 HE...  I've having an issue where the clock on the
machine skips around...  The wierd part is that it's very sudden when
it happens...  ntp sometimes brings it back, but it can't when the clock
gets too far ahread (1000 seconds), ntp dies...

In order to catch it happening, I ran a sleep 60 loop fetching time
from another server that keeps time correctly via:
while sleep 60; do echo -n h2:; nc h2 13; date; ntpdate h2.funkthat.com; done

here are some snippits:
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:12:54 ntpdate[31036]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:13:48 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:20:21 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:20:21 ntpdate[31045]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

but then ntp brings it back in sync:
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:28:49 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:35:21 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:35:21 ntpdate[31164]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:29:49 ntpdate[31170]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

It happens pretty often:
Oct  7 00:19:13 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.347912 s
Oct  7 00:46:37 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.673256 s
Oct  7 01:04:24 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.346533 s
Oct  7 15:00:59 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.681720 s
Oct  7 16:32:11 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.671268 s
Oct  7 17:29:29 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.671752 s
Oct  7 18:04:37 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.346987 s

but as you can see above, the time slip happens abruptly.. looks like
a rounding error or something...

I'm now reducing the sleep to 5 seconds... but as you can see the sleep
ends a few seconds early and local time suddenly jumped forward 6
minutes 33 seconds...

$ sysctl kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) ACPI-safe(850) HPET(950) i8254(0) 
dummy(-100)
kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC-low
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 11598
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 3257069245
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.counter: 4219134510
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.quality: 850
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 2854866610
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 10937740
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 1000
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 1
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1
$ sysctl kern.eventtimer
kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(400) i8254(100) RTC(0)
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 15
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 12217
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 400
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0
kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC
kern.eventtimer.activetick: 1
kern.eventtimer.idletick: 0
kern.eventtimer.singlemul: 2

I have switched my timecounter to HPET to see if things are different...

Any clues?


Mentioned switching to HPET could tell a lot about the problem. 
Switching event timer also may be interesting.


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Re: time keeps on slipping... slipping...

2012-10-08 Thread Chris Nehren
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 21:02:39 -0700 , John-Mark Gurney wrote:
 I recently put together a new machine w/ a SuperMicro H8SCM and an
 AMD Opteron 4228 HE...  I've having an issue where the clock on the
 machine skips around...  The wierd part is that it's very sudden when
 it happens...  ntp sometimes brings it back, but it can't when the clock
 gets too far ahread (1000 seconds), ntp dies...
 
 In order to catch it happening, I ran a sleep 60 loop fetching time
 from another server that keeps time correctly via:
 while sleep 60; do echo -n h2:; nc h2 13; date; ntpdate h2.funkthat.com; done
 
 here are some snippits:
 h2:Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 2012^M
 Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:12:54 ntpdate[31036]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
 h2:Sun Oct  7 17:13:48 2012^M
 Sun Oct  7 17:20:21 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:20:21 ntpdate[31045]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
 
 but then ntp brings it back in sync:
 h2:Sun Oct  7 17:28:49 2012^M
 Sun Oct  7 17:35:21 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:35:21 ntpdate[31164]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
 h2:Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 2012^M
 Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 PDT 2012
  7 Oct 17:29:49 ntpdate[31170]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
 
 I have switched my timecounter to HPET to see if things are different...
 
 Any clues?

Looks like faulty hardware to me. You shouldn't need to work that hard
to keep the clock in sync. Can you boot a livecd of e.g. Linux or
OpenIndiana and reproduce the issue?

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time keeps on slipping... slipping...

2012-10-07 Thread John-Mark Gurney
I recently put together a new machine w/ a SuperMicro H8SCM and an
AMD Opteron 4228 HE...  I've having an issue where the clock on the
machine skips around...  The wierd part is that it's very sudden when
it happens...  ntp sometimes brings it back, but it can't when the clock
gets too far ahread (1000 seconds), ntp dies...

In order to catch it happening, I ran a sleep 60 loop fetching time
from another server that keeps time correctly via:
while sleep 60; do echo -n h2:; nc h2 13; date; ntpdate h2.funkthat.com; done

here are some snippits:
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:12:54 PDT 2012
 7 Oct 17:12:54 ntpdate[31036]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:13:48 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:20:21 PDT 2012
 7 Oct 17:20:21 ntpdate[31045]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

but then ntp brings it back in sync:
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:28:49 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:35:21 PDT 2012
 7 Oct 17:35:21 ntpdate[31164]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
h2:Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 2012^M
Sun Oct  7 17:29:49 PDT 2012
 7 Oct 17:29:49 ntpdate[31170]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

It happens pretty often:
Oct  7 00:19:13 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.347912 s
Oct  7 00:46:37 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.673256 s
Oct  7 01:04:24 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.346533 s
Oct  7 15:00:59 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.681720 s
Oct  7 16:32:11 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.671268 s
Oct  7 17:29:29 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -392.671752 s
Oct  7 18:04:37 gold ntpd[3721]: time reset -785.346987 s

but as you can see above, the time slip happens abruptly.. looks like
a rounding error or something...

I'm now reducing the sleep to 5 seconds... but as you can see the sleep
ends a few seconds early and local time suddenly jumped forward 6
minutes 33 seconds...

$ sysctl kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) ACPI-safe(850) HPET(950) i8254(0) 
dummy(-100)
kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC-low
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 11598
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 3257069245
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.counter: 4219134510
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.quality: 850
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 2854866610
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 10937740
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 1000
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 1
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1
$ sysctl kern.eventtimer
kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(400) i8254(100) RTC(0)
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 15
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 12217
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 400
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0
kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC
kern.eventtimer.activetick: 1
kern.eventtimer.idletick: 0
kern.eventtimer.singlemul: 2

dmesg:
Copyright (c) 1992-2012 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 9.1-PRERELEASE #3 r241041M: Sat Sep 29 22:38:03 PDT 2012
j...@gold.funkthat.com:/usr/src.9stable/sys/amd64/compile/gold amd64
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4228 HE   (2800.06-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = AuthenticAMD  Id = 0x600f12  Family = 0x15  Model = 0x1  Stepping 
= 2
  
Features=0x178bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT
  
Features2=0x1e98220bSSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX
  AMD Features=0x2e500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM
  AMD 
Features2=0x1c9bfffLAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT,LWP,FMA4,NodeId,Topology,b23,b24
  TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
real memory  = 17179869184 (16384 MB)
avail memory = 16520966144 (15755 MB)
Event timer LAPIC quality 400
ACPI APIC Table: 11 APIC1503
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 6 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 6 core(s)
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 16
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 17
 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 18
 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 19
 cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 20
 cpu5 (AP): APIC ID: 21
ioapic0 Version 2.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
hpt27xx: RocketRAID 27xx controller driver v1.0 (Sep 28 2012 20:26:23)
cryptosoft0: software crypto on motherboard
acpi0: SMCI  on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: