Timecounter problems on 5.3 - things take twice as long

[Arjan Van Leeuwen]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:14:35 -0800 (PST), Doug White
<dwhite at gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Arjan Van Leeuwen wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a weird problem on a dual Xeon 550MHz system running
> > 5.3-RELEASE. Everything takes twice as long as it should.
> >
> > Example:
> > winston% time sleep 2
> > sleep 2  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.006 total
> >
> > The same for pings, the scsi delay when booting, etc. The time of the
> > system itself doesn't seem to be affected (but maybe ntpd takes care
> > of that). I tried changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl from
> > ACPI-safe to TSC and i8254, but that didn't help.
> 
> TSC isn't available on SMP systems.  Its possible one of the CPUs is
> damaged, though.
> 
> > Any other suggestions on how to fix this? Do I have to provide more
> > information?
> 
> 'vmstat -i' output would be handy.

OK, here it is:

interrupt                          total       rate
irq1: atkbd0                           2          0
irq6: fdc0                            10          0
irq8: rtc                        1140653        127
irq13: npx0                            1          0
irq16: atapci0                    129099         14
irq21: rl0                        345707         38
irq24: fwohci0                         1          0
irq28: sym0                           30          0
irq29: sym1                           30          0
irq31: fxp0                       140237         15
irq0: clk                        4456164        499
Total                            6211934        696

This is after 2.5 hours uptime.

Thanks,

Arjan

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