On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:46:17PM +0100, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >About August or so of last year, I upgraded from one -current to
> >another on my AMD64 box and suddenly started seeing a jerkiness to the
> >system.  Others reported it and I figured that it was a short-lived
> >kernel issue.  I recently did a new CVS update and built a fresh
> >kernel.  The problem is still there.
> >
> >(I only recall AMD64 people remarking about it, so I assume that
> >it's AMD64-specific.)
> 
> Hmm, since I see this on an i386 box with an MPACPI kernel, too, I currently
> suspect the ACPI interpreter taking too much time.  Investigating this
> further is somewhere on my todo list, but didn't make it to the top yet ;-(.

I see this even without MPACPI enabled:

$ grep -i mpacpi socrates
#options        MPACPI
#options        MPACPI_SCANPCI          # MPBIOS configures PCI roots

(Yes.  Flying in the face of convention and stirring up great tides
of controversy, no doubt, I use lower-cased kernel config files.
(^&)

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