Hello!

I partially upgraded my workstation from 9.2-RELEASE-p1 to 10.0-BETA2 using freebsd-update. Partially because I only performed the first pass (installing the kernel and rebooting).

After the boot, the average load was around 5, with no activity on the computer. I tried again by disabling all services in rc.conf and rebooted: same load.

Other symptoms are:
    o  The display (syscons) is only redrawn when hitting random keys
       on a PS/2 or USB keyboard.
    o  When all services are disabled (even NIC is not configured), the
       computer isn't able to boot or shutdown in a reasonable time
       without hitting the keyboard too (I guess to generate some
       interrupts).

The chosen event timer is different between 9.2 and 10.0:

9.2:
kern.eventtimer.timer: HPET
kern.eventtimer.choice: HPET(450) HPET1(440) HPET2(440) HPET3(440) LAPIC(400) i8254(100) RTC(0)

10.0:
kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC
kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(400) HPET(350) HPET1(340) HPET2(340) HPET3(340) i8254(100) RTC(0)

I have hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest=C2 in sysctl.conf.

I tested the following combinations:
    o  HPET  + cx_lowest=C1: normal load, computer responsive
    o  HPET  + cx_lowest=C2: normal load, computer responsive
    o  LAPIC + cx_lowest=C1: normal load, computer responsive
    o  LAPIC + cx_lowest=C2: high load /!\

Can someone help me track the problem down? :)

Thanks!

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Jean-Sébastien Pédron
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