Re: DragonFlyBSD 2.0 RELEASE SCHEDULE / livelocked limit engaged error

[Vincent Stemen <vince.dragonfly@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:33:04AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> On 7/14/08, Vincent Stemen <vince.dragonfly@hightek.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:40:45AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >  >     The release is scheduled for Sunday 20-July-2008!  We have about a week
> >  >     left!
> >  >
> >  >     Now is the time for people to list their must-haves and would-likes
> >  >     for the release!  Please use this thread.  I'll start it off:
> >
> >  There is a bug that has been lingering for some time that I would sure
> >  like to see fixed.  We have not been able to run a serial ATA DVDRW
> >  drive on any of our machines.  Any time it is connected, we get
> >  continuous repeating errors like
> >
> >     intr 10 at 40001/40000hz, livelocked limit engage!
> >     intr 10 at 19810/20000 hz livelock removed.
> 
> Could you post dmesg and 'vmstat -i'
> 
> 1) Does disabling ACPI help?
> 2) If the box is MP, have you tried kernel with options APIC_IO?

I forgot to mention that none of these machines are MP so I did not
enable APIC_IO.  I downloaded the FreeBSD-7.0 live CD today to try, as
Michael suggested, but it is late.  I'll try it and try disabling ACPI
on dragonfly, etc, tomorrow and let you know the results.