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=0xbfebfbff<FPU,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=0x4400<CNXT-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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
