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   From: Peter Brown    
      
   Hi Dariusz   
      
   Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:   
   > Hi Folks!   
   >   
   > Ever since my upgrade to the '21st century computing' (lol - a move from an   
   AMD   
   > Barton to Phenom X4 setup) I have been experiencing an odd freeze here and   
   > there. These are not hard locks, rather the WPS stops responding, mouse   
   cursor   
   > is still OK, CPU monitor (v 1.17) chugs along, but the WPS interface seems to   
   > stop working. This is always brought on by something a given application has   
   > attempted to do, once such app is AVXCAT, which I would love to use. The 2nd   
   on   
   > is the latest PMView install program (WPI based). Both will soft-lock the   
   WPS,   
   > only CAD helps.   
   >   
   > One thing I have been able to narrow this down to is the utilization of the 4   
   > cores...if I shut-off the 3 remaining cores (using setproc utility) I am   
   able to   
   > breeze through these processes.   
   >   
   > So...what's the config I'm using? Warp4.52, CP2 with FP6 applied, using the   
   SMP   
   > doscall, os2krnl, etc, PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=4 /APIC, although I have tried a   
   bunch   
   > of different /PIC and /PREC options, none of which had made a difference.   
   >   
      
      
   Maybe os2apic.psd is not that capable with modern hardware.   
      
   You may need to purchase eCS to get current apic support - when eCS    
   finally get a good working version of their acpi.psd released.   
      
   You could try using markexe.exe (from the os/2 toolkit) or execmode.exe    
   (should be in bootdrive:\os2) to mark apps that do not work with > 1 cpu    
   and, hopefully, overcome problems.   
      
      
   Regards   
      
   Pete   
      
      
   > What to do next? Well, using a nifty fixpak decode utility I decided to go   
   > through FP6 again and make sure that the correct SMP specific code was   
   deployed   
   > on my machine. I am making the assumption that the "5639A5550 - CP2 for Warp   
   > Server for e-business (SMP)" is the final setup I want to duplicate to   
   support   
   > my SMP switch. Since I do not have the correct SYSLEVEL file for that OS/2   
   > revision and therefore can not simply re-apply FP6 against that SYSLEVEL I'm   
   > taking a somewhat of a longer path here.   
   >   
   > I had previously applied FP6 when still using the Barton cpu, which was a   
   > non-SMP system. Specifically, I find that the FP6 OS2.2 subdirectory in the   
   FIX   
   > directory tree decodes to the following deployments (just a sample record):   
   >   
   > KRNLRDEV.TDF @SMPDIR      KRNLRDEV.SD_ 13 10/17/06 08:42    4307 8598E6BB   
   > Packed, Add                         \OS2\INSTALL\SMP   
   > KRNLRDEV.TDF @UNIDIR      KRNLRDEV.UD_ 13 10/17/06 08:31    4232 819A1896   
   > Packed, Add                         \OS2\INSTALL\UNI   
   > KRNLRFS.TDF  @SMPDIR      KRNLRFS.SD_  13 10/17/06 08:42    4927 1B715B3D   
   > Packed, Add                         \OS2\INSTALL\SMP   
   > KRNLRFS.TDF  @UNIDIR      KRNLRFS.UD_  13 10/17/06 08:31    4874 A40C5818   
   > Packed, Add                         \OS2\INSTALL\UNI   
   >   
   > ...so the TDF files are being tossed into the SMP or UNI subdirectories of   
   the   
   > \os2\install path, and thus my question, is this the FINAL resting place for   
   > these? Previously, I had the UNI processor stuff going to G:\o   
   2\system\TRACE,   
   > but is the SMP configuration different?   
   >   
   > I ask because as I'm attempting to debug the hanging applications I'm trying   
   to   
   > get a good working DUMP/DEBUG/TRACE environment...   
   >   
   > Thanks!   
   > -Dariusz   
   >   
   >   
      
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