Re: recent FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT has fans screaming again on PowerMac quad

Michael Tuexen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 19. Jun 2020, at 14:22, Dennis Clarke via freebsd-ppc <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear ppc64 big endian types:
> 
> Sort of the same problem we had before. Except now the screaming fans
> seem to mysteriously die down for about thirty seconds before they start
> up again and run full blast for five minutes. It makes the machine a
> nasty blower fan thing to put down the hallway and run a 30 meter CAT6
> ethernet to it just to deal with it at all.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this ?  It is really quite horrible to listen to.
> 
> At the moment there is nothing running at all with the exception of a
> svnlite checkout of http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head and the machine is
> screaming as if its life may end at any moment. Thankfully I have spare
> parts for when these fans blow up :
> 
> 
> dclarke@enceladus:~ $ uptime
> 12:21PM  up 33 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.97, 0.84, 0.48
> 
> dclarke@enceladus:~ $ uname -apKU
> FreeBSD enceladus 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #0 r362037: Thu Jun 11 06:09:20 UTC 2020 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/powerpc.powerpc64/sys/GENERIC64  powerpc powerpc64 1300097 1300097
> 
> dclarke@enceladus:~ $ cat /etc/rc.conf
> clear_tmp_enable="YES"
> syslogd_flags="-ss"
> hostname="enceladus"
> ifconfig_bge0="inet 172.16.35.8 netmask 255.255.255.192"
> defaultrouter="172.16.35.1"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
> dumpdev="AUTO"
> powerd_enable="YES"
> dclarke@enceladus:~ $
> dclarke@enceladus:~ $
> 
> top -CSP shows :
> 
> last pid:  1113;  load averages:  1.00,  0.70,  0.35                                     up 0+00:29:42  12:17:57
> 55 processes:  3 running, 51 sleeping, 1 waiting
> CPU 0:  8.6% user,  0.0% nice, 44.7% system,  0.3% interrupt, 46.3% idle
> CPU 1:  0.3% user,  0.0% nice,  2.8% system,  0.6% interrupt, 96.4% idle
> CPU 2:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> CPU 3:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Mem: 28M Active, 696M Inact, 626M Wired, 344M Buf, 6406M Free
> Swap: 3615M Total, 3615M Free
> 
>  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME     CPU COMMAND
>   11 root          4 155 ki31     0B   192K RUN      0 112:42 307.44% idle
> 1104 root          1 103    0    32M    19M CPU3     3   4:57  87.60% svnlite
>   12 root         22 -52    -     0B  1056K WAIT     1   0:12   2.65% intr
>    7 root          2 -16    -     0B    96K -        0   0:04   1.17% cam
>   19 root          6  20    -     0B   288K psleep   2   0:02   0.50% bufdaemon
> 1050 dclarke       1  20    0    23M  5252K select   0   0:01   0.23% sshd
> 1113 dclarke       1  20    0    16M  4408K CPU0     0   0:00   0.01% top
>  931 root          1  20    0    23M  4676K select   2   0:00   0.01% ntpd
> 1109 dclarke       1  20    0    23M  5260K select   2   0:00   0.00% sshd
>   15 root         15 -68    -     0B   720K -        0   0:00   0.00% usb
>  971 root          1  20    0    19M  5696K select   3   0:00   0.00% sendmail
>  761 root          1  20    0    14M  2384K select   2   0:00   0.00% syslogd
>    0 root         21 -16    -     0B  1008K swapin   3   0:00   0.00% kernel
> 1062 root          1  20    0    15M  4944K pause    2   0:00   0.00% csh
> 1107 root          1  20    0    23M    11M select   1   0:00   0.00% sshd
> 1048 root          1  39    0    23M    11M select   2   0:00   0.00% sshd
>  940 root          1  20    0    14M  1260K select   3   0:00   0.00% powerd
> 1057 dclarke       1  20    0    15M  3848K wait     1   0:00   0.00% su
> 1058 dante         1  20    0    15M  3988K wait     3   0:00   0.00% sh
> 1051 dclarke       1  20    0    15M  3988K wait     3   0:00   0.00% sh
>    1 root          1  20    0    13M  1228K wait     3   0:00   0.00% init
> 1061 dante         1  20    0    15M  3848K wait     1   0:00   0.00% su
>   13 root          3  -8    -     0B   144K -        3   0:00   0.00% geom
>  978 root          1  20    0    14M  2400K nanslp   3   0:00   0.00% cron
> 1110 dclarke       1  20    0    15M  4028K wait     1   0:00   0.00% sh
>   23 root          1 -16    -     0B    48K pmac_t   3   0:00   0.00% pmac_thermal
> 1037 root          1  52    0    14M  2808K ttyin    2   0:00   0.00% getty
> 1035 root          1  52    0    14M  2808K ttyin    0   0:00   0.00% getty
> 1033 root          1  52    0    14M  2808K ttyin    1   0:00   0.00% getty
> 1032 root          1  52    0    14M  2808K ttyin    3   0:00   0.00% getty
>  968 root          1  20    0    22M  4108K select   2   0:00   0.00% sshd
> 1036 root          1  52    0    14M  2808K ttyin    3   0:00   0.00% getty
> 
> There must be a trivial fix to all this as we had it all working pretty
> darn well some few months ago.
Disable SMP?

Best regards
Michael
> 
> -- 
> Dennis Clarke
> RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
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