Request for information - timers, hz, interrupts

2009-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
For a long time, at least in the 6-stable timeframe, I was used to seeing timer interrupts going at the frequency of 2*HZ, e.g. this is from 6.4-RELEASE: kern.clockrate: { hz = 250, tick = 4000, profhz = 166, stathz = 33 } debug.psm.hz: 20 cpu0: timer 6789885563499 cp

Re: Request for information - timers, hz, interrupts

2009-12-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 04 December 2009 9:52:39 am Ivan Voras wrote: > For a long time, at least in the 6-stable timeframe, I was used to > seeing timer interrupts going at the frequency of 2*HZ, e.g. this is > from 6.4-RELEASE: > > kern.clockrate: { hz = 250, tick = 4000, profhz = 166, stathz = 33 } > debug

won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Worster
i sent the following to -questions yesterday morning but had no luck. can anyone where give me tips or pointers? tia tom after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. the system used to have two sat

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote: i sent the following to -questions yesterday morning but had no luck. can anyone where give me tips or pointers? I had this problem with a Dell M600 blade. I was able to install from a 6.4 ISO, then binary update to 7.0, but when I tried to get to 8.0 I

Re: Request for information - timers, hz, interrupts

2009-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/12/4 John Baldwin : > On Friday 04 December 2009 9:52:39 am Ivan Voras wrote: >> For a long time, at least in the 6-stable timeframe, I was used to >> seeing timer interrupts going at the frequency of 2*HZ, e.g. this is >> from 6.4-RELEASE: >> >> kern.clockrate: { hz = 250, tick = 4000, profhz

Re: Request for information - timers, hz, interrupts

2009-12-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 04 December 2009 4:09:59 pm Ivan Voras wrote: > 2009/12/4 John Baldwin : > > On Friday 04 December 2009 9:52:39 am Ivan Voras wrote: > >> For a long time, at least in the 6-stable timeframe, I was used to > >> seeing timer interrupts going at the frequency of 2*HZ, e.g. this is > >> from

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Worster
i finally got a 7.1 livefs fixit shell to work and i was able to mount ad4s1a. i fscb'ed all the slices on ad4 and they look ok. i changed fstab to refer to /dev/ad4* instead of /dev/ mirror/gm0* and got rid of geom_mirror_load="YES" from /boot/loader.conf. and i ran gmirror clear. none of this d