Fresh current (r269328) amd64: high load average while idle, slow keyboard reaction

[Steve Wills]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
> Jan,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:56:23PM +0200, Jan Kokemüller wrote:
> > On 31.07.2014 16:21, Anton Berezin wrote:
> > >At the console, depressing and holding a key does not lead to auto-repeat.
> > >
> > >At the console, sometimes a key only appears on the terminal after another
> > >key is pressed.
> > 
> > Maybe this is a problem caused by a misdetected clock source? I've had this
> > problem as well.
> > 
> > Try to set kern.timecounter.hardware and/or kern.eventtimer.timer to other
> > settings that are listed in kern.timecounter.choice and
> > kern.eventtimer.choice, such as HPET which works great for me.
> 
> Setting both to HPET certainly helped the LA.  I cannot check the keyboard
> input until tomorrow, but chances are that it is indeed the fix.

Just wanted to throw in another datapoint, I had this issue too and setting
kern.eventtimer.timer=HPET alone solved it for me.

Steve
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