Re: Installation of NetBSD 5.0_STABLE fails when SMP is active

[Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen%iki.fi@localhost>]

Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> # remove some PS/2 devices which cause interrupt storms with USB (int19)
> no pckbc*       at acpi?                # PC keyboard controller
> no pckbc0       at isa?                 # pc keyboard controller
> no pckbd*       at pckbc?               # PC keyboard
> no pms*         at pckbc?               # PS/2 mouse for wsmouse
> no wskbd*       at pckbd?
> no wsmouse*     at pms?

I built a custom kernel with these and the system boots fine. But after some 
time (at least when I/O is involved) the system freezes, I can't enter the 
kernel debugger (with USB keyboard) and the only solution is hard power off.


load averages:  0.14,  0.10,  0.03;               up 0+00:10:18        16:20:01
22 processes: 19 sleeping, 3 on CPU
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 15.9% system, 12.5% interrupt, 71.5% idle
Memory: 332M Act, 1248K Wired, 6484K Exec, 313M File, 30G Free
Swap: 32G Total, 32G Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  547 root      76    0    20M 4612K piperd/1   0:12  2.78%  2.78% cvs
  541 root      25    0    25M 7444K CPU/4      0:03  1.86%  1.86% ssh
    0 root     124    0     0K   90M CPU/6     13:19  0.00%  0.00% [system]
  529 root      25    0  7628K 1444K CPU/7      0:00  0.00%  0.00% top


I was running "cvs checkout -P pkgsrc" when it hang.

Martti