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   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   Hi Peter!   
      
   On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:36:39 UTC, Peter Brown    
   wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Yes, I suspect OS2APIC has some limitations as well. My MSI BIOS supports MPS    
   table configuration in 1.1 or 1.4 version...I'm currently trying both    
   combinations...so far not much luck though.   
      
   eCS? Yes....but only if the general concensus out there in the OS2 community   
   is    
   that the ACPI is stable enough...so far I haven't seen that, but I'm certainly    
   open to this possibility.   
      
   I have both of the EXE marking utilities here...tried them both, the known    
   applications are still locking the system...so I'm guessing the problem lies    
   somewhere underneath the covers...meaning, setting a single CPU execution mode    
   only and shutting off the remaining CPUs do not seen to have the same result.   
      
   Thanks!   
      
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